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i’m oddly stressed out rn

So everyone in PFX has painted nails except Oliver

I find it really funny that we know that Ann and Al paint their nails from only A SINGULAR VISIBLE FINGERNAIL from both of them lol

I mentioned this idea before but I need to incorporate this into a comic because I think about it a lot but Hio being shy and he’s like “no!! I’m not ready!!! don’t look at me!!!! 😩” so he manifests so many sparkles that he’s blinding and Ruby’s like “bro NOBODY is looking at you”

It’s so interesting, I wonder if a resurgence is going to happen haha

I do see new fans pop up every once in a while though so maybe one day something will happen

I have to remember that in the greater scheme of the vocaloid sphere that these old people are IRRELEVANT but they feel so very alive to me haha

sometimes I grieve the fact that engloid-related fan creations are lowkey in a drought rn and have been for the past year or two due to lack of interest from casual fans and many of the people I knew have either moved on to new fandoms or moved on with their lives so don’t participate in fandoms

yohioloid should be put into a blender and deconstructed into a soup recipe

I should probably learn more music production and music theory so I can make covers faster 🫩

i am so picky it takes me a long while to be confident in my merch designs haha sorry

Tbh my note on “kind of unpredictable” also comes from what I hear about SynthV updates and the voices randomly changing a whole bunch agjdkfkfk

a i synthesis
pros:
- super super realistic

cons:
- kind of unpredictable 😭 have you ever used V6…
- sounds like dying metal vocalists when when it fails

concatenative synthesis
pros:
- pretty realistic

cons:
- takes a lot of storage space cuz you have to store all the sound data
- pretty limited to the recorded sound data

so I would think that

Formant synthesis

pros:
- very versatile
- probably doesn’t take up 3 GB of data

cons:
- kind of robotic depending on how it’s done
- sometimes sounds bad
- old

Not that I know much about A I vocal synthesis but I was kind of thinking on the three main forms of vocal synthesis that I know about and their pros and cons

Formant synthesis obviously being THE BEST THE GOAT THE GREATEST (jk I’m just joking)

Changing my career path to Amateur Formant Synthesis Enthusiast

Yah so combine all of this with sound generators and band pass filters and EQ filters and you get poor man’s formant synthesis

so you need harmonics because if you just had a sine wave (makes a pure sound that with no harmonics) there wouldn’t really be anything for the formants to boost lol

tbh this is just a bad explanation of speech acoustics in general

and then consonants are produced with NOISEEEE and and SILENCE and TIMING and voicing

voicing being when the vibration of the vocal cords occurs, some consonants are voiced and some aren’t

okay that’s all i feel like explaining thanks for reading

and then the formants are documented in Hz and stuffs ya

anyway

so having different formant frequencies will give you different vowels

F3 and beyond determine the color and character of the sound and it’s notable in stuff like r-colored vowels

so imagine this is a spectrum analyzer like what you would see when looking at an EQ program

F0 is the fundamental frequency, the note being sung
F1 is the first formant
F2 is the second formant
F3 is the third formant and so on

okay anyway

a formant is an area in the harmonics/frequency spectrum (sorry i don’t know the right term) where there is more energy or where it’s louder

the first two formants are the most important for vowel sounds

so the synthesized voice is made with two main sound sources
- a buzzing sound (mimics the vibrating vocal cords)
- noise — like white noise (simulates air flow/breathiness)

it’s important that the buzzing sound generates harmonics though (sounds on top of the fundamental pitch)

let me poorly explain the basics of formant synthesis for anyone here who knows nothing about it

i don’t know much about formant synthesis other than the basics of how it works and some of its history but the concept of it scratches my brain

tbh maybe i should look into chipspeech because of the whole vibe going on there dhkfhg

seeking to be an amateur formant synthesis enthusiast

Mr. Long Feng Dies (Mr. Krabs dies meme) YouTube video by Mynti Dragon

youtu.be/_SaOrmNOV8s help