how to process and transform the singer recordings so that it would result in a performance of a given song sounding as natural as possible and provide the feeling of a continuous flow.how to process and transform singer recordings so that it would result in a performance of a given song sounding as natural as possible and provide the feeling of a continuous flow.They used 'Elvis' as the base model for ideas and set about to tackle two main problems: So, the aim of the project was to provide a fast, low cost way of getting uncanny human-like vocals to give producers full control of music production. This meant that while all other parts of the music production were by then fully able to be recreated in a DAW, producing a good quality vocal performance meant hiring a human vocalist. It was pure collaborative research, and they did not think about selling at that time.Īt the time, synthesizers would take days to produce good quality results, but the vocal would always sound inhuman and obviously generated by a machine or computer. YAMAHA itself was responsible for the product design and development of the actual product. The first initial ideas came from him in Japan in 2000, with most of the research done at the Pompeu Fabra University and the development of the core signal processing libraries created in C++. YAMAHA agreed to help them start a fresh new project it was at this point that Kenmochi Hideki joined. While it did not become a product, the 'Elvis Project' helped establish that a series of phonetics in a wide range of pitches would help build a synthesizer based on any model. This was due to the fact this particular project was too large due to being based on spectral morphing techniques and each song required a professional singer behind it. It did not become a product at the end of its development. The project was codenamed 'Elvis' and lasted two years. Bonada was known to have set about recording not just a song from a singer, but various ranges and pitch in an attempt to build a model that any song could be built from. Bonada worked on a research project as requested by YAMAHA which contained some 'interesting' ideas. Jordi Bonada, a senior researcher at the Music Technology Group at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona joined the university in 1997. In the 20th century, the most successful vocal synthesizing attempt had been ' Queen of the Night' from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute this had been made in 1984 by Yves Potard and Xavier Rodet using the CHANT synthesizer.

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