Ernest

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David Bowie could create amazing vocoder-like effects, as on his track 'Fame,' simply by singing through his hands into the echoes from a room's corners and walls.

Above is top-level structure of Yofiel's 'Bowie 0.1a' stereo, quintuple phase-banked AV vocoder, now in alpha dev. Changes in vocoder settings alter the frame pointer in the video, by default set to display two hands, with one finger moving while tuning and filtering each vocoder band. For improved quality, the vocoder's 20Hz~2kHz vocal range is expanded to 96kHz, then compressed back into the original range. As a result the app can use standard DSP pipeline algorithms while increasing vocoder performance and quality by an order of magnitude. Theoretically.

If you send me your own voice recordings singing 'Fame' I'd be glad to include them in the app. It's a fun thing to do, listening to one of Bowie's recordings of 'Fame' and singing along with it. The voice signal will be vocoded and harmonized, so the quality of the recording fidelity is only of note, rather than required.

David Bowie could create amazing vocoder-like effects, as on his track 'Fame,' simply by singing through his hands into the echoes from a room's corners and walls. 

Above is top-level structure of Yofiel's 'Bowie 0.1a' stereo, quintuple phase-banked AV vocoder, now in alpha dev. Changes in vocoder settings alter the frame pointer in the video, by default set to display two hands, with one finger moving while tuning and filtering each vocoder band. For improved quality, the vocoder's 20Hz~2kHz vocal range is expanded to 96kHz, then compressed back into the original range. As a result the app can use standard DSP pipeline algorithms while increasing vocoder performance and quality by an order of magnitude.  Theoretically.

If you send me  your own voice recordings singing 'Fame' I'd be glad to include them in the app.  It's a fun thing to do, listening to one of Bowie's recordings of 'Fame' and singing along with it. The voice signal will be vocoded and harmonized, so the quality of the recording fidelity is only of note,  rather than required.   

EMULATING BOWIE'S SINGING OF 'FAME' 
 

David Bowie could create amazing vocoder-like effects, as on his track 'Fame,' simply by singing thr

Seeking your own voice recordings singing Bowie's 'Fame'