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Note that the Scales can be applied to the chord mode and helps you stand out from the crowd
ensuring that you don't slip out of scale when heavily modulating or playing the chord engine. You can
find out more on this in the Scale [p.77] and Chord [p.78] sections.
5.2.10. Speech
The Speech Oscillator borrows from the technology of the Texas Instruments Speak &
Spell, a toy from the 1970s that could talk intelligibly. That's not easy to do; human speech
combines
vowel
sounds like "aaaa" or "oooo" with
consonants
that shape words, like
plosives
("p" and "b" sounds),
nasals
("mmmm" and "nnnn"), and so on. Getting a circuit to do this
was a pretty neat trick, and circuits like these were used everywhere from toys to Kraftwerk
albums like
Computerwelt
.
This Oscillator does a lot of the hard work for you; the settings required to synthesize simple
sounds and entire words are stored in libraries and sub-libraries, so you can simply choose
what you want to speak/sing.
Type: chooses the library of sounds. These include several sets of formants, creating vowels
and
diphthongs
("ai", "ow", etc), followed by lists of colors, numbers, letters, and some synth-
related words like "modulator" and "waveform". (Kraftwerk, remember?)
Timbre: shifts the formants of the words up and down to control overall tonality.
Word: selects specific sounds or words inside the library chosen by the Type knob. (Not the
Type knob that selects the type of Oscillator – the Type knob for this Oscillator, which says
Wave on the front panel.)
As an example: if you set Type to around 80, then play notes as you turn the Word knob up,
you'll hear the MiniFreak say "Alpha, Bravo, Charlie" up to "X-Ray, Yankee, Zulu" at the pitch
you're playing. It's a lot of fun!
Freak Out: Assign one of the Matrix modulations to Shape, then modulate it with an LFO set to SnH.
This will cause the notes you play to select random items from the chosen library, regardless of what
pitch you play.
29 Arturia - User Manual MiniFreak - The Digital Oscillators
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