speakjet/soundgin-chippen

Detta dök upp på speakjet-mailinglistan. Intressant - precis när midibox-speakjet-projektet verkar börja bli klart, så kommer ett nytt chip som verkar ha bredare syntesmöjligheter än speakjet

www.soundgin.com

The SoundGin picks up where the SpeakJet left off!

http://www.speechchips.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=22

The SSG01 Sound Coprocessor (Soundgin) is a single chip 6-voice
electronic music synthesizer sound effects / voice synthesizer chip.
It produces complex sound effects, synthesizer style music and
English speech with an unlimited vocabulary. Soundgin provides wide-
range, high resolution control of pitch (frequency), tone color
(harmonic content) and dynamics (volume).

For use in manufactured electronics, educational and home projects.

The SSG01 (Soundgin) consists of six synthesizer "voices" which can
be used independently or in conjunction with each other to create
complex sounds. Each voice consists of a Tone Oscillator / Wave
Generator, an Envelope Generator, an Amplitude Modulator and
Ramping / Target controls. The Tone Oscillator controls the pitch of
the voice over a wide range. The Oscillator produces one of eight
waveforms at the selected frequency, with the unique harmonic content
of each waveform providing simple control of tone color. The volume
dynamics of the oscillator are controlled by an Amplitude Modulator
which can control by the Envelope Generator, the Ramping / Target
control or by another oscillator. When triggered , the Envelope
Generator creates an amplitude envelope with programmable rates of
increasing and decreasing volume. In addition to the six voices, two
mixers are provided to combine the waveforms outputs of the
oscillators.

Available in an 18-Pin DIP or SOIC package.
2.0 to 5.0 Volts Operation
16Khz Sample Output Rate
2400 or 9600 Baud Serial Connection
6 Independently Controlled Voices
Amplitude Modulation
Frequency Modulation
Ring Modulation
Hard Sync
ADSR Envelopes
Musical Notes
English Phonemes
Sound Morphing
In-Chip Presets
Object Class for ooPIC

verkar som midibox-entusiasterna som utvecklar en midibox-plattform för speakjet-chipet kommer att porta controlapplikationen till soundgin när de är klara

verkar mycket lovande!

http://www.audiocommander.de/downloads/midibox/SpeakJet_kII_03.mp3

gnutten: det är ett talsyntes-chip, modern variant av sc01/votrax/texas instruments speak&spell. så anledningen till att det låter lite trashigt är att den inte används som det är tänkt (men

"The SpeakJet (from Magnevation LLC) is a completely self contained, single chip voice and complex sound synthesizer. The SpeakJet has a built in library of 72 speech elements allophones), 43 sound effects, and 12 DTMF Touch Tones. The SpeakJet can be controlled by a serial data line from a ZX chip.

Other features include an internal 64 byte input buffer, internal programmable EEPROM, three programmable outputs, and direct user access to the internal five channel sound synthesizer."

MIDIbox-projektets sida om midiboximplementationen (grym!!)
http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=midibox_speakjet

Features:

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Full MSA and SCP Control via Midi!
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Trigger Allophones and SoundFX by Notes
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Trigger Allophones only by Notes
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Trigger SoundFX only by Notes
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Jaw/Tongue control: set position of jaw and tongue by CC, play pitched Allophone by Notes
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Different Jaw/Tongue sets available: Vowels/Consonants/Pauses
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Change the pitch of currently played Allophones by Notes 0..59
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Play the 5 Oscillators by Notes, one OSC per Channel
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Harmonic subtractive syntesis Multi-OSC playmode by Notes(!)
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Control Waveforms (shapes) of harmonic synthesis Multi-OSC mode
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Change Allophone Pitch by using the 14bit PitchBend-Wheel
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Control Bend with CH_AFTERTOUCH
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Control Speed by CC
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Control Master Volume by CC
*
Send Pauses by CC
*
Send Next Slow/High/Low/Fast by CC
*
Control OSC-Frquencies and Levels by CC
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Control ENV-Frequency and Type by CC
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Control Distortion (OSC 4 & 5) by CC
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Fire Phrases by CC
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Supports System Realtime Messages START, STOP, CONTINUE, RESET
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Send PANIC by Foot & AllNotes/SoundsOFF Messages
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Custom assignable controls by editing the definition listing (IIC_SpeakJetMidiDefines.h)

Not (yet?) implemented:

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Bankstick support to save patches
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Phrase storage (use the Phrase-A-Lator from Magnevation via RS232!)
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AIN sensors to trigger & control natural speech (allophone) output

Dels så finns det development boards och dels så börjar det finnas partslits och byggspec från midibox-implementationen ... det finns ngn kille som byggt en synth kring chipet - "the insanium", coolt namn. han skulle släppa scheman fria när han filat färdigt

spännande chip, håller helt klart med!

http://www.shelaq.de/flame/start.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aWEcb17sRs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWSybnx2SOM

demos av den färdiga midibox-implentation av speakjet-chipet. Ser mer intressant ut än speakjet (även fast det verkar vara en gedigen produkt ändå!) - kolla in sättet att styra synthen i ena videon.. grym idé!

edit:

http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php?topic=2870.195

- MB Speakjet / kII is free!
- the current material costs are approx. 40 US$ to 100 US$, depending on which controls are used
- kII has a very crazy handTracker interface which behaves very different from the FLAME joystick. Whereas the joystick is triggering only the available sounds; kII has a scientific phoneme table with jaw and tongue controls. These controls are also available by Midi, so you don't necessarily need a handTracker device (or can attach something else!)
- kII has no sequencer; but as I'm a realtime-control freak: kII has an auto-synced quantizer
- and kII has an integrated harmonizer