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Synthesizing vocal sounds such as "Oh", "Ah&q

Hey guys,

Does anyone have any tips regarding how one might synthesize some simple vocal sounds such as "oh", "ah", and "oooo" sounds on a subtractive synthesizer?

I think it's filtering using several bands (in parallel) at a time. Like varying dual-(or more)-band pass filter-cutoff configurations or the like, but am not exactly sure as my Trinity has a dedicated vowel-filter insert effect thus I'm a bit of a copout in that area.

A radias can do it with the formant mode, as can the monomachine.

i would advice you to read about formant synthesis.

basicly you need 3 resonating bandpass filters to achive that but it should work reasonable well with only 2 in parralel mode.

cheers,
Tomer.

Here are useful formant frequency settings that circulated on the old Analogue Heaven list some time ago:

Code:

Speaker         F3            F2           F1        

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IY (beet)

Man        3010 = F#7    2290 = D7     270 = C#4 

Woman      3310 = G#7    2790 = F7     310 = D#4

Child      3730 = A#7    3200 = G7     370 = F#4



IH (bit)

Man        2550 = D#7    1990 = B6     390 = G4

Woman      3070 = G7     2480 = D#7    430 = A4

Child      3600 = A7     2730 = F7     530 = C5



EH (bet)

Man        2480 = D#7    1840 = A#6    530 = C5

Woman      2990 = F#7    2330 = D7     610 = D#5

Child      3570 = A7     2610 = E7     690 = F5



AE (bat)

Man        2410 = D7     1720 = A6     660 = E5

Woman      2850 = F7     2050 = C7     860 = A5

Child      3320 = G#7    2320 = D7    1010 = B5



AA (hot)

Man        2440 = D#7    1090 = C#6    730 = F#5

Woman      2810 = F7     1220 = D#6    850 = G#5

Child      3170 = G7     1370 = F6    1030 = C6



AO (caught)

Man        2410 = D7      840 = A5     570 = C#5

Woman      2710 = E7      920 = A#5    590 = D5

Child      3180 = G7     1060 = C6     680 = F5

=

UH (full) 

Man        2240 = C#7    1020 = C6     440 = A4

Woman      2680 = E7     1160 = D6     470 = A#4

Child      3310 = G#7    1410 = F6     560 = C#5

=

UW (good) 

Man        2240 = C#7     870 = A5     300 = D4

Woman      2670 = E7      950 = A#5    370 = F#4

Child      3260 = G#7    1170 = D6     430 = A4