Midiphoneme plug-in screenshot

To use this plug-in you need a midi keyboard and a box of midi sliders. The processor speed has to be quite high. With this plug-in the user has the possibility to change the values of all the 5 formants and the 5 bandwidths.

00) ignore the first slider

0) the test slider it is used to check that the sound goes through.
Just click yes, no, yes, no and you should get a sound. Then click no and you can play with the midi keyboard and the sliders box.

1) Any parameter can be assigned to any of the first 20 midi controllers.
NB the modulation wheel is midi controller 1.
The assignment is done moving the sliders of the plugin with the mouse.
The parameters are:
-interpolation time
-volume
-vibrato rate
-vibrato depth
-singing formant
-panning
-1st formant
-2nd formant
-3rd formant
-4th formant
-5th formant
-1st bandwidth
-2nd bandwidth
-3rd bandwidth
-4th bandwidth
-5th bandwidth

2) the pitchbend bends the pitch half a semitone up or down

3) the switches (i.e. keyboard keys):
key 83: switches to formants mode, i. e. after this key has been pressed the user can control the 5 formants and 5 bandwidths with the assigned controllers. When you press that key, the plugin will interpolate to whatever formant and bandwidth values are set at that point, then the user can manipulate them.

keys 84 to 93: switches to the 10 vowels of fixed formants and bandwidths
NB the singing formant parameter works only in this case.

keys 94 to 96: interpolation type switches: linear, sinusoidal, double sinusoidal.

download the plug-in here (.zip file) Unzip it and you get a .dll file. Put the .dll file into the VST Plug-ins folder of Nuendo or Cubase.