Chipspeech Vst

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Chipspeechis a singing vocal synthesizer software application and plugin created by Plogue that recreates the vocals of several 1980s speech synthesis chips from early home computers and video games.

The software is used for creating vocals for use within music. Chipspeech is designed to produce vintage-style vocals from synthesizers that were used by the music industry in the 1980s, having a cut off date of 1989 technology.[4] The vocals, therefore, are not meant to sound realistic and are more suited for sound experimentation. It works as a text-to-speech method. Users type the lyrics in and receive instant playback results which was a capability beyond the original soundchips the software vocals are based on. The software is as simple as Vocaloid. Though English and Japanese come as standard, other languages can be created by direct entry of syllables. Though human-like vocals can be achieved, the results are always machine-like rather than man-like.[5] It is capable of different synthesis methods or re-samplers.[6] In addition for 1.032 version of the software a new "Speak and Spell" program was added creating the circuit bending feature.[7]

Chipspeech itself as created as a result of research for Chipsounds by Plogue in the 2000s. David Viens himself would often collect sound chips even if there was no need for them. This obsession eventually lead to further events which resulted in the creation of the Chipspeech software after he spent years hacking, protoboard making, probing, and reverse engineering the speech chips. He noted that the software's main goal was to be a singing emulator and not a text-to-speech software. The source data of each vocal is 8 kHz or 10 kHz. Despite all their effort, the project came to a halt. Hubert Lamontagne joined Plogue with knowledge of phonetics and digital signal processing, Hubert took interest in creating a vintage-sounding synthesizer, and designed the synthesizer to work beyond being a sound library.[5]

It originally came with 7 "characters" upon purchase, more vocals have been added since and continue to be added. These characters come with their own backstory and are based on a sound synthesizer. Recreation of these voices was done with permission from their respective license holders. Plogue itself gained rights to the speech data from three TI-99/4A games (Alpiner, Parsec and Moon Mine), and the internal vocabulary of the TI Speech Device. The process of gaining right for the vocals took over 10 years, as the company did not want to disrespect the copyright holders even when met with issues such as the license holder having gone bankrupt. And while the technology was easy to emulate, the data needed for the emulation was not.[5]

In January 2016, Plogue announced that Hubert Lamontagne had found a way to improve quality.[8] On 9 February, Version 1.066 was released. This fixed bugs with Deeklatt and Otto Mozer. Voice improvements to Dandy 704 and Bert Gotrax were scheduled for the next release and were updated in 1.072.[9][10] Some vocals such as Dandy 704 are restricted by how far they can be improved.[11] In addition, Chipspeech will be receiving the ability to talk as well as sing in its next major update.[12] Chipspeech also was exported to Japan during June 2016.[13]

An official album was created featuring the software. The album is titled "chipspeech AUTOMATE SONGS .01" and includes a cover of the song Stakker Humanoid using Otto Mozer, whose vocal is an emulation of the same synthesizer used for the samples taken from the arcade game Berzerk.[15]

Reception to the software was mostly positive. It won 3 Computer Music awards; Editor's Choice, Performance and Innovation. The software was described as a polished product at their MusicRadar review and noted as "tons of fun to use".[25]

AskAudio in their "Voice of the Machines" review focused on the fact that with the raise of Autotuning software, a human is always required. Chipspeech allowed a nostalgic approach to vocal synthesizing with its resulting vocals coming purely from a computer. It listed the positives of the software as " Incredibly unique, fairly easy to use, sounds excellent, affordable" but noted as its main weakness was how the software strained the CPU.[26]

CDM, who had been given exclusive early access to the software, also highlighted how "boring" modern synthesizers had become and focused on the "fun" that the software provided. One of its highlighted merits of the software was how rare some historical chips it aimed to recreate had become.[5]

In August 2016, Chipspeech topped the virtual instrument top 25 rankings at Sonicwire, owned by Crypton Future Media, beating their Vocaloids products such as Hatsune Miku which normally dominated their rankings.[27]

This Wiki was created primarily to host Chipspeech fanon content and encourage creative liberties in the fandom, as well as be a repository of new information to make it easier for new fans to get into Chipspeech.

This Wiki was created primarily to catalogue fanon and headcanons about the Chips, and allow community members to share headcanons in one place. Though this Wiki will touch on the canon descriptions given by Plogue on their website and in chipspeech_guide.pdf, it will not go into detail regarding the Twitter RP, since some fans do not regard it as canon and choose to give the characters different stories and dynamics based solely on the official descriptions from Plogue. However, some things sourced from the Twitter RP will be referenced here. To learn more about the Twitter RP and about the characterization from that, visit the regular Chipspeech Wiki here.

Something that is a little less synth and more speech / singing and allows little multi-part harmonies to be written across an Elektron synthesiser would be absolutely amazing. Especially if you could directly type in lyrics into it (standard Elektron text input is fine but another hardware method would be amazing too). DigiSong / DigiSpeak type box would be so dreamy.

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Thanks everyone. From a little test run, the problem with sampling is that much more than even acoustic instruments you pretty much have to sample every vowel at every pitch within a range otherwise it sounds funny and not in the good way.

Plogue has released today an update for their Chipspeech plugin, a vintage-style speech Synthesizer. The new version features an accurate emulation of the Voder by Homer Dudley, the first device that could generate continuous human speech electronically.

New customers can purchase chipspeech at a 50% discount for a limited time only. Chipspeech runs as a standalone applications and as VST, AU, RTAS and AAX plugin formats for Windows and Mac. The update is free for current users.

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