Where do formants occur in nature?

[" Killah! "]

OTHER THAN THE HUMAN VOICE or LARYNXES of other animals...

Where else do formants occur in nature?

hehehehe.

[vitaminman]

Hey,

I think that a formant is just a group of several frequency regions at predefined amplitudes which sound like vowels.

You can make an 'eeee' sound in Cool Edit by generating 3 sine waves at 270hz/0dB, 2300hz/-15dB, and 3000hz/-9dB and mixing them together (make sure the file is a 32 bit file, then normalize to 98% before listening).

In theory, if I had three tin whistles or flutes which could play the notes C#4, D7 and F#7 (not exactly, but close enough), you would also be able to make a similar sound.

Do I win a date with Borat?

Nick

[" Killah! "]

Thank you for the information regarding the creation of formants utilizing a wave editor.

For your information, the Korg OASYS has an intuitive user interface for its formant synthesizer where drop down menus give the individual an option to select from a myriad of vowel sounds. These three option modules represent the formant sets working together over a specified time continuum where the variables X1, X2, and X3 occur consecutively in the previously stated time continuum. Therefore, it is possible to make a semblance of "words" out of this aforementioned formant option causal chain in the Korg interface.

The reason I mentioned formants is I thought it nice to layer a formant under a string arrangement to give the output of both formant and string arrangement a more distinct timbre.

Do you know of any popular songs that implement formant synthesis as a main source of its melody lines. Or will you state that it is something that is not utilized often, or perhaps in a more background or minimal fashion by current producers.

Cheers.

[" Killah! "]

P.S. A date with Borat?

Borat and Pinhead... that's an odd couple. It's like mixing gabber with Mid-Eastern lounge music (if that exists).