http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r5B5BE6664
Ninstrument shared this video demo of a custom Speak & Read module, made just for Eurorack modular.
Here’s what he has to say about the Euro format Speak & Read:
I have had so many of these as bent toys that I thought it was time to make a eurorack module of one.
Lots of time spent trying to nail down the right registers for the best phonemes and words. Very fast response means you can use quick triggers and for longer glitches you can use longer gates.
The response has been a little over whelming to this as I knew there were a few out there who loved these, but had no idea that it was this many!!
No word yet on whether this will be made available as a custom module. See Ninstrument’s site for details.
Real cool product, but what’s up with the annoying demos lately? I’d love to hear something musical come out of this thing, and not just haphazard banging on it.
something musical ..??
i think you got the wrong product
this is a noise making, noise instrument for people who like noise
I disagree. Having actually used a circuit-bent Speak & Spell, as well as Sonic Charge’s Bitspeek plugin, you can do a lot more than just “make noise”.
Don’t jump to conclusions without knowing me… I LIKE noise. This demo sounds more like a toddler banging on pans.
Noise/glitch stuff is lame
My dad said the same thing about my punk music when I was a kid, he, he ,he:)
I still remember him saying, ‘If that aint just lame noise than I don’t know what it is!”
The difference is that punk isn’t just noise it is a genre of music, and you can find musicality, meaning and context within that genre, but this stuff actually is just noise. When people say it just sounds like noise, they aren’t talking metaphorically, it is just random noise. I’ve heard random noises on a train ride that have made more of a statement to me.
Woooooo Wooooooooooooo
Do tell:D
“Noise” is a genre of music. Sorry you don’t understand it
That’s the kind of stuff that we use 5 minutes, very funny, then we regret to have purchase this because it’s impossible to use it in a real song.
The weirdest thing about Speak N’ Spell-style speech synthesis is how on the edge it is. If it had 1% less fidelity, it would no longer sound speech-like at all. It was clearly designed for 1980’s chip cost – how slow can the clock be before everything starts to fall apart?
It’s right on that intelligibility valley edge, and that’s why it sounds so weird. It’s like an optical illusion of the candlesticks with the faces. One second it sounds like a lo-fi series of bit clicks – the next second it does a passable vowel sweep and you can understand it.