[PD] [OT] Voice Synth

[Pall Thayer]

Hi Bryan,
No need to apologize. I wasn't trying to suggest that there was  
anything wrong with Ratts. I think Ratts is really cool and I used it  
in a recent online project called "On Everything" (http:// 
pallit.lhi.is/on_everything). But when I started looking at voice  
synthesis through PD, I wasn't looking for anything complex with lots  
of capabilities. I just wanted a really synthy sounding voice inside  
PD. It took me a while to glean from the help files, the bare  
essentials to getting PD+ratts to "say" something and when I did, it  
turned out to be a lot simpler than I felt that the sample and help  
files made it look at first. So, perhaps it would be good to have one  
patch with the help files that is just the bare minimum. Some of us  
like to get that so we can then dive right in and start experimenting  
with it ourselves.

But again, ratts is great and I expect to use it in some future  
projects as well.

Pall

On 2-Jun-07, at 6:40 PM, Bryan Jurish wrote:

> moin Pall, moin list,
>
> Many apologies that the ratts help files seem to be less than entirely
> intuitive to first-time users; in my defense, I can only say: "sheesh,
> man, if you folks think the ratts pd API is poorly documented, y'all
> should see the rsynth code"...
>
> ok, now that I've gotten that out of my system (no flame intended,
> honestly): do you have an immediate suggestion as to how I could  
> improve
> things?  I realize that a ratts chain has more user-settable  
> parameters
> than you can shake a proverbial stick at, but the defaults should be
> sensible (if you want something that sounds vaguely like human  
> speech),
> and playing with those strange animals is half the fun ;-)  I included
> the 'ratts~' abstraction so that users could get an idea how all those
> separate objects work together and/or just "make pd talk"; and I  
> rather
> hoped that the 'ratts-help.pd' help patch would suffice for an  
> overview
> of the objects in it... oh well...
>
> marmosets,
> 	Bryan
>
> On 2007-06-02 15:49:43, Pall Thayer <palli at pallit.lhi.is> appears to
> have written:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I've toyed around with Ratts quite a bit and when you do have the  
>> help
>> files it makes everything seem more complicated than it really is.  
>> So,
>> here's a little patch that contains the bare essentials that you  
>> need to
>> do start experimenting with Ratts:
>>
>> ratsass.pd:
> [snip]
>
> -- 
> Bryan Jurish                           "There is *always* one more  
> bug."
> jurish at ling.uni-potsdam.de      -Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic  
> Entomology




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Pall Thayer
palli at pallit.lhi.is
http://www.this.is/pallit



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