robovox()

Category

Oscillator / vocal synthesis macro

Description

Creates a pitched synthetic singing voice from quoted syllable text. Syllables are separated with a hyphen, for example robovox(X, "la-la-la", 0.35, 1.0). The first argument is the oscillator phase/index, so MIDI notes transpose the singing voice in the same way as sin(X), saw(X), or envosc(X,0). Internally Syntropy prepares the text before compilation and renders a deterministic source-filter voice using vowel formants, glottal excitation, breath noise, smooth syllable transitions, and separate consonant articulation for plosives, fricatives, nasals, liquids, and breath sounds.

Arguments

• index: oscillator phase/index. Use X for normal pitch tracking, or scale it for octave/detune effects.
• text: quoted syllable text. Use - to separate syllables.
• timbre: 0.0 for a smaller/female vocal tract, 1.0 for a larger/male vocal tract.
• speed: syllable speed. 1.0 corresponds to 120 BPM, 2.0 to 240 BPM, 0.5 to 60 BPM.

Typical Values

Use timbre values between 0.15 and 0.85. Use speed values from 0.5 to 3.0 for musical phrases.

Example

0.8*param(3)*attack(200)*release(16000)*robovox(X, "la-li-lo-la", param(0), 0.5+2.5*param(1))
[Timbre: 0.35; Speed: 0.45; Tone: 0.50; Gain: 0.75;]

Notes

Only one robovox(index, "text", timbre, speed) or robovoxloop(index, "text", timbre, speed) macro is allowed in one preset formula in this version. robovox() stops after the text is finished; robovoxloop() loops the syllable text. The text is fixed at compile/load time, while index, timbre, and speed can be controlled by param(), automation, or other realtime formula expressions.