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Create electronic singers for GarageBand Apps
Here is a hint for people who want an electronic singer for FX's effects. If you installed Xcode (default installation), you will notice that they provide some toys in its applications folder -- specifically, in /Devloper -> Applications/Utilities/

There is a tools called Repeat After Me there which allow you to tune the voice tone and export it to AIFF. For instance, you can type in some text, and record your voice saying the same thing. Then it will sync the computer's voice to your tone in few steps. It can be handy for some of you!

[robg adds: I'd never tried this app before, and it takes a bit of work to figure out what it does -- view the PDF file in its folder for some basic assistance.]
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Create electronic singers for GarageBand
Authored by: rich13 on Jan 20, '04 02:47:09PM

This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time! It really works, but it takes some experimenting...



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Create electronic singers for GarageBand
Authored by: mistercow on Jan 20, '04 11:24:35PM

I must be missing something incredibly basic here. I have tried before to get Repeat After Me to work, and I've never been able to get it to match the pitch of my voice, or any other sound for that matter.

I type in my text, build the graph, record/attach sound, extract and then impose pitch, and all that happens is the entire synthesized phrase ends up being very low and monotonous. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?



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Create electronic singers for GarageBand
Authored by: allenhuffman on Jan 20, '04 11:57:15PM

Type your phrase in, convert it To Phonemes, Record, Build Graph, Extract Pitch, Impose Pitch, then click on the graph that it made and play. You may be doing what I was doing -- not realizing you have to click in each area before play to get it to play.

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-- OS-9 Al



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Create electronic singers for GarageBand
Authored by: mistercow on Jan 21, '04 06:48:02PM

Actually that's not the problem I'm having. I can get it to play the sound I want, but the problem is that no matter what I do to record the sound, imposing the pitch on the phoneme graph simply makes a horizontal line at 50 hz. In other words, it seems to think that I am talking in an extremely low and monotonous voice.

Further experimentation shows that apparently Repeat After Me just doesn't work with very quite input sounds. Boosting the sound in an editor causes it to work. If only it would automatically boost the sound, or let you do it your self... oh well, one extra step.



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Create electronic singers for GarageBand
Authored by: joezane on Jan 21, '04 12:14:39PM

yes.
i agree. this app is a little obscure.
and the documentation isn't super great.

a step by step tutorial would be great....



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Create electronic singers for GarageBand
Authored by: silicontrip on Jan 22, '04 08:28:02PM

I'm unable to get RAM to work.

Everytime I click on record sound, the application crashes.

If I record the sound in a different application and try to import it, RAM says the file is not supported despite the fact that the file is a 16 bit non compressed aiff file, as RAM requires.

Doh!



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