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What you need to be looking for are VST - Virtual Studio Technology - instruments. The good DAW's all let you use VST plugins to synthesise instrument sounds, using various parameters, including different breath pressure, volume etc. Many libraries are available for free online, you tend to get free ones with Digital audio magazines (often a DVD full of ...

Vocoders were originally invented as a way to transmit speech over low-capacity transmission media. To encode: Start with speech as an electronic signal (e.g. from a microphone) Put the signal through a multi-band filter, getting some number of new signals, each covering a different frequency range. Pass each of these frequency bands through an envelope ...

The full huge range of sounds available from synthesisers means that the subject is enormously broad. Typical keyboards behave differently depending on the virtual instrument you are playing. For example, a piano patch isn't likely to respond to aftertouch, and might not respond to pitch bend; a strings patch will respond to pitch bend, and might swell if ...

You need to learn about sample playback software and virtual instruments for computers. There are hundreds of commercial products on the market that provide what you are asking about. The technology has been around for thirty years, although in the early days sample playback and virtual instruments required dedicated hardware keyboard instruments. These days ...

I think a good analogy is with creating images. There are lots of ways to create an image: with a pencil, with a fibre-tip pen, with oil paints, with chalk, with oil paint, with watercolours, with photography, and so on. Of course, you can photograph an oil painting, but that doesn't help you modify it in an oil painterly manner. You can't accurately ...

It depends! "Lead synth" typically connotes a single note sound ("mono", short for monophonic) but you'll also find lead synths sounds that are "poly", short for polyphonic, depending on the (sub)genre, the artist's style, what the artist had for breakfast that morning, etc. The most common lead synth in trance is probably a mono synth constructed from two ...

If I am focusing on the part you are referring to, this sounds a lot like a "talk box" (along with some distortion and perhaps an additional flange. A quick search brings up the term "Formant Filter" and also a video for a random product which shows the use of a formant filter as driven by a guitar: ( ...

I know this is an old question but I think I can clear up the confusion here: Two Entities: Keyboard and Sound Engine You have to distinguish between two things: 1) The capability of a (here: Miniak's) keyboard to react to key velocity and pressure (aka Aftertouch) and generate internal modulation sources and MIDI messages from these. 2) The capability ...

According to Wikipedia: In 1961, the IBM 7094 became the first computer to sing, singing the song Daisy Bell. Vocals were programmed by John Kelly and Carol Lochbaum and the accompaniment was programmed by Max Mathews. This performance was the inspiration for the famous scene in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey in which the HAL 9000 computer sings the ...

The rythmic effect can be achieved by filtering some signal through a lowpass VCF (12 dB/8ve, little resonance) heavily modulated (~ 800 Hz down to 20 Hz) by a sawtooth LFO. That gives the basic "choppy" thing. Then you can try all kinds of stuff to get the actual sound; perhaps start with a PWM-square or sawtooth VCO and ring-modulate it with a triangle ...

I refer you to my answer on Using keyboard/MIDI controller to learn piano Both of your instruments contain a "MIDI controller". Both of your instruments contain a "MIDI sound module". Any MIDI controller can control any MIDI sound module.

You use a MIDI cable, just like you would use to connect any piece of MIDI gear to any other piece of MIDI gear. Skippy, you are asking the exact same question you already asked here just a couple of days ago. MIDI Here's an extensive explanation for German speakers: Was ist MIDI? Grundlegendes zum Thema MIDI und Audio Google "What is MIDI?" in English, ...

The UltraNovation can be set up to trigger on the MIDI input as well as, or instead of the keyboard so you can assign any patches you like to the G10 as a trigger. The G10 is designed this way, so any MIDI synth can provide the sound - the advantage is that you can do all the usual things you would do on a guitar - whammy, string bends etc

Piano and synth (organ) keyboards are really not very different at all. Even across acoustic pianos the feel is QUITE different from one to the next (even moreso than between organ/synth keyboards). The reason to learn on a fully weighted digital piano is so your playing can easily be moved to a real acoustic. (Which is the king of all instruments, ...

Actually there are several items that makes it hard to exchange sounds between synthesizers: For romplers (meaning synthesizers based on sampling), the samples are different from one synth to another. The synthesis engine is different (meaning the parameters that define the (change of) the sound/samples). Even if the engine is the same, the parameter ...

Some are, but usually this is limited to a particular manufacturer and often to model. It's a standardization problem. And sometimes an "amount of bytes for a hardware synth to deal with" problem. Let's start with what the heck a "sound" is. It's usually, but not always, a set of digital samples plus a whole lot of parameters about how they should be ...

I've been writing music software for 15+ years and this is a topic I love. People play music at a MUCH more sophisticated level than computers. Anything that a computer can play, a band of people can adjust and play better. Since there's no "perfect" way to play music - the measure of music is the emotion it makes you feel - computers will never be great at ...

Great answers on this thread. I would caution that it's often pretty easy to tell if it's not a "real" instrument. One way to try to get around this is to record the synth, play it back (isolated) out of some decent speakers, and record that playback with a microphone. Do it in a room with a little reverb and you can get something that sounds much more real ...