Music Synthesizer

Controls the functions that allow the Soundgin  to be used as a music synthesizer.  

Functions include:

• Basic oscillator functions:

  • Amplitude

  • Frequency

  • Amplitude modulation

  • Frequency modulation

  • Wave shape: Sine, Square, Triangle, Ramp, Saw, Noise, Level, Vocal Cords

• Play musical note

• Release musical note

• Envelope shape

Phonetic Synthesizer

Controls the functions that allow the Soundgin  to synthesize the sounds of the English language. 

Functions include:

• Basic oscillator functions.

• 59 Phoneme presets

• Play (sing) phoneme at selected musical note

• Format frequency bend

• Voice density

Selecting any one of the 59 Phoneme presets will set the oscillators in such a way that that it will emulate the sounds of the English language.  Selecting them in sequence will cause the Soundgin to speak any sentence.

Special Effects Voices

By changing the oscillator settings, the voice can be changed from a human sounding voice to novel sounding voices such as:

• Giants
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• Robots  -  Emulating the video game: Berserk
   "Chicken, fight like a robot!  The humanoid must not escape.  Got the Humanoid.  Got the intruder."
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• Aliens
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• Haunting  -  Using noise for the voice source:  
  "Do not be afraid"
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• Singing  -  A selection from 2001 Space odyssey: 
  "Daisy Bell"

Sound Targets

Controls the Sound Morphing functions that ramp the frequency and amplitude of each oscillator to specified points. 

Functions include:

• Basic oscillator functions:

• Amplitude Target control

• Frequency Target control

• Synchronized arrival.

Sound targets are used when one sound needs to morph into another sound. 

Preset Sounds

Controls the functions that load the Sound Engines with predefined sounds.

Functions include:

• Basic oscillator functions:

• Preset selection board.

Each of the sound engines can be loaded with a different preset at the same time allowing for dual sound effects.  Dual sound effects can be used for things such as a steam locomotive where the steam engine sound is loaded into one engine and the steam whistle in the other.  Together, these two sounds form a single sound effect while still allowing independent modifications of each.