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1. The Cantor Digitalis enables to control the vocal source the pitch the vocal effort and the articulation of the vowels Three control types are proposed Figure 4 The Vocalic Rectangle for graphic tablet The Vocalic Axis for graphic tablet The Demo for mouse and keyboard Vocalic Axis Demo for graphic tablet for mouse and keyboard Figure 4 Control type 7 1 Tablet control Vocalic Rectangle Axis The source is controlled with a stylus on the preferred hand The articulation is controlled with the fingers of the other hand if the tablet is Touch or with the same stylus if the tablet is non touch To help the musician to locate itself in the graphic tablet space the following visual clue is to apply on the tablet see installation 7 1 1 Source control The vocal pitch is controlled continuously with the horizontal position of the stylus The exact position of each note is located on the vertical lines Figure 5 The vocal effort is controlled with the help of the stylus pressure on the tablet The more the stylus is pressed the more important the vocal effort 7 1 2 Articulation control The control mode of the vowels is chosen in the Control Type panel of the CantorDigitalis Synth application 12 O LIMSI CNRS Audio Acoustics group 2014 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL Vowel control in 2D Vocalic rectangle This is the optimal mode for vowel control lt is necessary to hav
2. Audio Acoustics group 2014 27 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 16 License Copyright LIMSI CNRS Contributors Christophe d Alessandro Boris Doval Lionel Feug re Sylvain Le Beux Olivier Perrotin 2014 Christophe d Alessandro cda Dlimsi fr Boris Doval boris doval upmc fr Lionel Feug re lionel feugere limsi fr Sylvain Le Beux slebeux limsi fr Olivier Perrotin olivier perrotin limsi fr This software is a singing synthesis computer program made of a digital formant synthesizer driven by one or several control interfaces It is composed of a suite of Max patches At runtime the user interacts with the two following Max programs CantorDigitalis Tab and CantorDigitalis Synth CantorDigitalis Tab is used to receive the data from the graphic tablet and send them to the synthesis engine CantorDigitalis Synth is the synthesis engine It is a performative parametric voice synthesizer CantorDigitalis Synth implements the linear acoustic source filter model of voice production The filter or vocal tract part of the system is computed using a parallel structure made of digital second order resonators Vowels are controlled according to synthesis rules The source or glottal flow derivative part of the system is computed using the Causal Anticausal Linear Model CALM The CALM parameters are combined for controlling four vocal dimensions voice tension breathiness roughness and vocal effort CantorDigitalis Synth includes p
3. tablets to the computer The pull down menu enables to choose the tablet to use for the corresponding hand 5 2 Graphic tablets selection As the software only needs the use of one tablet the selection All tablets and tools enables to control the CantorDigitalis Synth with any of the tablet s connected to the computer Nevertheless if the user wishes to use specific tablets it is possible to select them in the pull down menus 10 LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 6 Cantor Digitalis interface The CantorDigitalis Synth interface is presented on Figure 3 The latter is segmented in several blocks detailed in the following parts Cantor Digitalis LIMSI CNRS tiene Beto Works with CantorDigitalis Tab application fe ntrol Type When playing the tablet put the CantorDigitalis Tab window to front J A Vocalic Rectangle Vocalic Axis Demo for graphic tablet for graphic tablet for mouse and keyboard 8 Vertical Control Audio Setup S z Le D Sound On Off Noisy Soprano Child 1 Reverb Level Child 2 Options o 1 HB a 4 Baby Pedagogic Voice Factory Reverb advanced Extreme Voice 1 z Soprano Noisy Alto Extreme Voice 2 Extreme Voice 3 j Bulgarian Style Woman Accuracy Correction Advanced Settings G LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 11 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 7 The gestural interface and the mapping
4. 1 2 Soprano 22 Child 2 3 Noisy Alto 23 Baby 4 Alto 11 Extreme Voice 1 5 Tenor 12 Extreme voice 2 6 Bass 13 Extreme voice 3 Table 2 Prefixes to send the synthesizer data O LIMSI CNRS Audio Acoustics group 2014 21 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 11 Voice factory pedagogical 11 1 About The panel Pedagogic Voice Factory Figure 15 aims at being a support for the understanding of some voice production mechanisms in an interactive way by using audio videos features For this sake it is based on a user interface allowing turning on or off some parts of the model while listening to the rendering playing the voice with the tablet and visualizing the sound spectrum Without graphic tablet to control the voice three sliders on the right of the spectrogram window can be used to settle the vocal effort the pitch and the vowel space For the scenario pres end ed dei Eull voice piriform sinus anttsresonance mt Quick Control Vocalic l Vocal Pitch e Figure 15 Voice Factory 22 LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 11 2 Features The window is composed of 3 parts corresponding to the ones of a source filter model with dependencies The source part selection of its amplitude control type as well as the activation of the harmonic or noise components of the glottal source The formants part a
5. Cantor Digitalis GK onto Igitalis Contact cantordigitalis limsi fr Web http cantordigitalis limsi fr USER MANUAL Cantor Digitalis v1 1 October 21 2014 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL Table of contents 1 ABOUT CANTOR DIGITALIS ees ee ee see ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee nano nan ee ee ee ee cnn 4 2 WHY THE GRAPHIC TABLET aid ias 5 3 NEWSLETTER FORUM LIST AND BUG REPORT ese ees sees ee se ee ee ee see se ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee 6 A STARTING ist ee Ge Se EG Ge Ee oe ee ee ee GE GE EG ee Ee GE ee EG GE ne dut 7 4 1 REGUIREDCONFIGURATION sisie es ee ee SE De SO aii daa Ke Ge SES ee daras 7 4 2 PROVIDED MATERIAL ese esse ee ee ee see ee see ee ee ee ee de ed ee ee ER dee ee Ad ee ee RE AAR ee Ee ee ee ed ee ee RR ee ee Re ee RR ee ee ee ee 7 43 INSTALLATION ER RO to OE ER OE EK N 8 4 4 START THE SOFTWARE ccccsscccecccnsscuscecnsseuscecssseusccussseusscusseeucecuseeuccecusseueceauseeucecusseeuseeusseuseeuuseeuceeuesseusees 9 5 RECEPTION OF THE TABLET DATA bessies des ge Ee ee iia 10 5 1 PRESENTATION OF THE APPLICATION ees ee see ee ese se ee ee see ee dee ee ee ee de ee ee ee Rd ee de ee de ee de ee Ee ee ee ee de RR ee ee ee 10 5 2 GRAPHIC TABLETS SELECTION st ees se ie ee ed oe Ge ek ee ee ee Gee se oe be id Ge Ge ie N dd 10 6 CANTOR DIGITALIS INTERFACE ru ee ee see ee ee se see ee ed ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee Ge de ee
6. ETTINGS TO APPLY BEFORE A CONCERT mu ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ER ee ee ee Ge ee ee Ee ee ee ee ee ee 25 2 O LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 12 1 A A O NO 25 12 2 A O oe one SEN ne RE N Ge ir 25 12 37 SOUNDS A tata 25 13 KNOWN ISSUES AND FACTS EE es ten den nent ia 25 431 A Si RE dE nn Men ee MAR M Re ME ARE PEN es Re Ee EG DS 25 TBD se EE EA MAR HEN ARE AO EE AR es 25 13 3 AE N EE EK AL RA RE N IE ON 25 14 SCIENTIFICREFERENCES EE Se SS Ee ee ven ee tia 26 14 1 PHO THESIS EES Re Ee Ee Se ee Ee Ge ee eg GR ee oe Ee ee ee GED Ee Ves ee Be EG ee Ge D 26 14 2 JOURNAL PAPERS ti i n ee vee ee Vee Ede lardons dates don dia ee Ge ee N Se eg N Ee N ee da dan Gee da dant esta tarte N ee dede 26 14 3 CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS ees ee se see ee ee ee ees ee ee ede ee ede ee de ee dee ee de ed ee ee ee ed ee ee ee ee ee ee ee 26 152 CREDITS RE A nad EE ORE EE dash ceveahs dues tethvave 27 DEVELOPERS ia siz Se Ee a De Den EE E De ee A ARS Di ae 27 SUPERVISOR cis EER ac testes Sn A ee a nn ae te 27 16 LICENSE oo GE Ge EE Re a A rte Me 2 28 O LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 3 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 1 About Cantor Digitalis Cantor Digitalis is a performative singing synthesizer It allows you to sing using your hands and a stylus on a graphic tablet Cantor Digitalis is easy to install and to play with It has been used for several su
7. are therefore encouraged to load and test the software s suitability as regards their requirements in conditions enabling the security of their systems and or data to be ensured and more generally to use and operate it in the same conditions as regards security The fact that you are presently reading this means that you have had knowledge of the CeCILL license and that you accept its terms The software was developed during the m tason project ANR 10 CORD 0003 and can be downloaded at the following URL http metason cnrs mrs fr Resultats MaxMSP index html s2m wacom is based on the design of the wacom object whose history is Version 3 for OSX by Jean Michel Couturier CNRS LMA France 2003 wacom object for os9 version 2 by Richard Dudas Copyright c 1999 the Regents of the University of California Special thanks to Atau Tanaka for suggesting this object back in the Bionic days Thanks to CNMAT for sponsoring the version 2 s2m wacom has been done with ObjectiveMax A framework for creating Max objects using Objective C Copyright c 2009 74 Objects LLC Redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without modification are permitted provided that the following conditions are met 1 Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer 2 Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice this list of conditions an
8. blet s plugged to the computer The software CantorDigitalis Synth includes the singing voice synthesizer Cantor Digitalis 4 2 2 Material Visual clues are provided in PDF format in the folder Tablet Masks The file TabletLayer_IntuosM is for tablets of size M and the file TabletLayer_IntuosL is for tablets of size L They have to be printed and applied on the tablet to visualize the control space of the synthesizer LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 7 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 4 3 Installation The following part deals with the configuration of the tablet for the control of Cantor Digitalis For a mouse control go straight to part 6 To use the Wacom tablet on the computer install the driver downloadable at the URL https www wacom asia en driver 634 3 for mac os x v 108 107 106 For a good compatibility with CantorDigitalis Tab no version higher than 6 3 4 3 has to be installed 4 3 1 Application of the visual clue on the tablet Choose the visual clue adapted to the tablet size provided with the software in the folder Tablet Masks and print it on A4 paper If the size of your tablet is different you can resize the PDF to the dimension of your tablet Cut out the visual clue following its contour For 4M tablets keep the white frame around the keyboard For 5M tablets remove the white frame Stick the visual clue on the tablet surface with adhesive tape For 5M tablets the visual corners
9. ccessful concerts singing different styles of music from ancient or modern polyphonies to Indian ragas Several players of Cantor Digitalis can be assembled to form a choir like the Chorus Digitalis Cantor Digitalis is made of two main building blocks a parametric voice synthesizer and a controller based on a graphic tablet Singing is basically achieved by drawing melodic patterns on the tablet Sound is computed according to a mathematical model of the voice production including flow at the output of the vocal folds vocal tract filtering and sound radiation Sound production is entirely parametric with no natural voice recording The choice of a graphic tablet is not random Other interfaces have been tested but they have not reached the qualities of the pen graphic tablet in terms of precise targeting easy learning and high temporal and spatial resolution In addition to solo singing Cantor Digitalis can be used for tailoring voices to your own needs or desires Voice quality vocal tract size vowels spectra and other parameters can be adjusted in order to create the voice you like For developers Cantor Digitalis is distributed as a free software following the CECILL license You are free to use it modify it and distribute it as mentioned in the license see the last section 1 http cantordigitalis limsi fr chorusdigitalis_en php 4 LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 2 Why th
10. com menu of the System preferences Select the desired tablet in the first banner Click on Touch in the second banner In the second tab Standard Gestures uncheck each gesture and select Disabled in the pull down menu Three Fingers In the last tab My Gestures uncheck each gesture 4 4 Start the software Start the application CantorDigitalis Tab to receive the tablet data Start the application CantorDigitalis Synth for the synthesizer The software is ready to play in the mode Cantor Digitalis To change the mode and change more options see the help provided in the window interface of the application CantorDigitalis Synth or in the next parts LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 9 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 5 Reception of the tablet data The application CantorDigitalis Tab Figure 2 gets the data of the graphic tablets connected to the computer For better performances this window has to be in front when playing the Cantor Digitalis Display values Display values All tablets All tablets and tools ps Figure 2 Screenshot of the CantorDigitalis Tab application 5 1 Presentation of the application The window is made of two identical panels on the right is the one dedicated to the preferred hand right for right handed left for left handed On the left is the one dedicated to the other hand The button Update tablet menu updates the list of connected
11. ctivation of the formants independently or cumulative sum from the smallest to the highest central frequency The source filter dependency part turn on off some dependencies between pitch formants and vocal effort To turn on the sound spectrum one has to click on the Spectrum On Off square on the top right of the spectrum window 11 3 Modes Two modes are available The first is a construction of the voice model scenario composed of 14 sequences Each sequence completes the model of the previous sequence The sequence 14 corresponds to the full synthesis The current sequence number is indicated below the panel Source filter dependencies The touch Q of the keyboards enables to switch from a sequence to the following Details of each sequence are in the following table LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 23 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL Sequence number Description Source control only 1 Binary control of the volume with stylus pressure 2 Linear control of the volume with stylus pressure Add formants to the glottal source 3 Add the 1 formant only moving the slider individual formant upwards Add the 2 formant only moving the slider individual formant upwards Add the 3 formant only moving the slider individual formant upwards Add the 4 formant only moving the slider individual formant upwards Add the 5 formant only moving the slider individual fo
12. d the following disclaimer in the documentation and or other materials provided with the distribution 3 Neither the name of ObjectiveMax nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT INDIRECT INCIDENTAL SPECIAL EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES LOSS OF USE DATA OR PROFITS OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY WHETHER IN CONTRACT STRICT LIABILITY OR TORT INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 29
13. e a Touch tablet The articulation is controlled with the position of the finger non preferred hand in the vocalic space The latter is represented in red in the top left corner of the visual clue The exact positions of the vowels are located on the center of each cross The vowels are indicated with the phonetic notation Vowel control in 1D Vocal axis In the case the user only have one tablet no Touch the vowel choice is made moving the stylus of the preferred hand the one which also control the source vertically The horizontal lines indicate the exact positions of the vowels written in green on the left and right border on the tablet Figure 5 Figure 5 Visual clue for the Cantor Digitalis O LIMSI CNRS Audio Acoustics group 2014 13 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 7 2 Mouse control Demo By clicking on the Demo mode a window opens Figure 6 The visual clue initially provided for the tablet appears in the window It can be resized using the two sliders on the top right SS Default Size GC Figure 6 Demo mode 7 2 1 Source control The source is controlled placing the mouse on the visual clue The vocal pitch is controlled continuously with the horizontal position of the mouse The exact position of each note is located on the vertical lines Figure 6 The vocal effort is controlled continuously with the vertical position of t
14. e float boxes The formant values after the source filter dependencies will be computed in real time and you could hear the results Four formant value presets are given by clicking on the wished vowel box on the left 18 LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 10 Options of the Cantor Digitalis Pedagogic Voice Factory Reverb advanced Advanced Settings Demo Mapping Figure 11 Options of the Cantor Digitalis 10 1 Accuracy correction To facilitate the pitch accuracy it is possible to activate an automatic correction of the pitch in the panel Accuracy Correction Figure 11 The played note is corrected selecting the closest note in a semitone scale The activation of Contact correction corrects the note at each contact of the stylus on the tablet The activation of Trajectory correction adjust the note if the stylus remains still on the tablet Fine settings of the trajectory correction are available clicking on Advanced settings Erreur Source du renvoi introuvable Figure 12 The trajectory correction is running when the stylus stays in the Interval detection during the time Triggering delay The correction is then applied during the time Correction duration Presets are available from a Slow to a Fast correction with Small or Large intervals O LIMSI CNRS Audio Acoustics group 2014 19 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL Figure 12 Advanced settings of Accurac
15. e graphic tablet An important component of the Cantor Digitalis is its interface Several criteria are considered for the selection of the control interface First as a reactive musical instrument the latency must be less than the perception threshold as control gestures are planned and not only selection gestures The time resolution of the Wacom Intuos 5M tablets is 5ms with a pen and 20ms with a finger and the USB time transmission of the data to the computer is negligible Here are the conditions to get the illusion that the sound and the gesture are related by a direct causality like in an acoustical instrument Second the interface must perform a high spatial resolution to allow the continuity of the control gesture to avoid hearing the quantification steps Wacom Intuos 5M tablets have a spatial resolution of 5080 lines per inch 0 005 mm and 2048 levels of pressure which is far higher than what a graphic tablet pen can reach limited by the diameter of the pen tip and the small amplitude of the pen tip spring Lastly a synthetic sound is all the more realistic than its parameters are not static Hence the interface must allow a precise repeatable intuitive and constantly dynamic gesture The pen tablet initially designed for computer drawing meets this criterion by using a gesture known by all and practiced since the childhood Compared to mouse or trackpad the tablet offers the possibility of playing subtle modulations of para
16. ee ee ee 11 7 THE GESTURAL INTERFACE AND THE MAPPING ee ees see ee ss see ee ee see se ee ee ee ee ees ee de ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee 12 7 1 TABLET CONTROL VOCALIC RECTANGLE AXIS ese ee ees ee ee ee ees ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee Re ee AR Ge ee ee Ge ee ee ee ee ee 12 7 2 MOUSE CONTROL DEMO vico iii 14 7 3 SUMMARY OF THE CONTROLS ascicinacnsncaain id a iia RE dd SEER Ede 15 8 CONTROL COMPLEMENTS ees ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee Ee ee nro nn ee Ee ee nano nn nar nano ee nn anna nana nana 16 9 VOICE SELECTION iis ee Ee oe te ees ee ee SE GE Ee stan besdier tube tale ED ee ES ee Ge SE on AE Ee 17 10 OPTIONS OF THE CANTOR DIGITALIS users ee ee ee ee ee ee de ee ee de ee ER ee ee Ge ee ee Ee ee ee ee ee ee 19 10 1 ACCURACY CORRECTION AR EE o OE OR N OE OE EE ERES 19 T02 AUDIO EO RE EO N cite dettes 20 10 3 INSTRUMENT TUNING iese ees see ee ee ed ee ee Ad ee de ee de ee AR ee ee de RR de de RR ee ee ed ee ee Rd ee ee RE Ad ee RR ee ee ee 20 10 4 SENDING THE DATA RE EE EE EE EE EE EE 21 11 VOICE FACTORY PEDAGOGICAL iii Eese seek ode ese dese ge de dek EG See dee be Ee a Ee EE eek od Eg Ge See ESE 22 11 1 A EA RE e AR Ee Ee ae OE O 22 112 FEATURES nda Ge Ge N ee de Ge ee Oe ee ae ole ee a lies ek Ee 23 11 3 MODES ee A ee EE EE OS Ee EE N ED ee EO EG EE EE DE 23 11 4 TO CAREBEFORE USING sies sake se sd eo ees Ge oe Ge ee eke Ge Ge ee ee Ge Ge rada dee ee Ge Ge os dd eed ad ee Ge ee Ge pa Ge tente 24 12 S
17. he mouse The bottom border provides a null vocal effort while the top border gives a maximum vocal effort 7 2 2 Articulation control The vowels a e u i o y are available typing the corresponding keys on the keyboard 14 LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 CANTOR DIGITALIS 7 3 Summary of the controls Vocal parameter Vocal pitch Vocal effort Vowel articulation Vocalic Rectangle tablet Preferred hand Horizontal stylus position Vocalic Axis tablet Preferred hand Horizontal stylus position USER MANUAL Demo mouse Preferred hand Horizontal mouse position Preferred hand Stylus pressure Preferred hand Stylus pressure Preferred hand Vertical mouse position Non preferred hand 2D position of finger Preferred hand Vertical stylus position Non preferred hand Keys on the keyboard Table 1 Cantor Digitalis control O LIMSI CNRS Audio Acoustics group 2014 15 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 8 Control complements In the Vocalic Rectangle mode the vertical position of the stylus is not related to any parameters Then it is possible to add an additional control chosen in the panel Vertical Control Figure 7 Vocal tension gives a voice more tensed when the stylus is moved to the top and more relaxed and breathy when the stylus is moved to the bottom Larynx position enlarges the vocal tract whe
18. is forum To report a bug please send an email to cantordigitalis limsi fr 6 LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 4 Starting 4 1 Required configuration To run the Cantor Digitalis a Mac OS X computer is needed Although the instrument control is possible with the mouse optimal results are obtained using a Wacom graphic tablet For concert audio equipment e g amplified loudspeakers would be a plus but it would work also on your computer s speakers So far the Cantor Digitalis has been fully tested using the following equipment 4 1 1 System Mac OS X version 10 6 or above 4 1 2 Graphic tablet Wacom Intuos 3M 4M 5M 5M touch pro M 3L 4L 5L The driver needs to be no more than the version protouch 6 3 4 3 4 1 3 Optimal control The provided software is optimized for the use of a graphic tablet with a stylus and a tactile function If the tablet is not tactile one tablet can be used with stylus only If no tablets are available the mouse can be used to get an overview of the system To optimize the computer performances and limit intrusions of other applications it is recommended to create a dedicated session to the software on the computer and close all the others during a performance 4 2 Provided material 4 2 1 Software Two applications are provided located in the folder Applications The software CantorDigitalis Tab enables to get the data of your graphic ta
19. isplay in power adapter mode Close every application except the ones linked to the Cantor Digitalis Put CantorDigitalis Tab in front Sounds Turn off the automatic alerts of the computer Turn off the sound indicator of volume Known issues and facts Issues The touch input is active if the stylus is out of the detection zone of the tablet but not the click Crash if the two applications are opened at the same time open them one after the other Do not open the applications on different sessions at the same time Facts The disabling of the tablet settings is valid for a computer whatever the tablet of the same model Help To report a bug please send an email to cantordigitalis limsi fr To discuss about issues or if you have any comment you want to share with the community you can subscribe to the forum O LIMSI CNRS Audio Acoustics group 2014 25 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 14 Scientific References The following selected list of references gives information on the scientific and technical bases of the Cantor Digitalis They can be downloaded at http cantordigitalis limsi fr 14 1 14 3 26 PhD Thesis L Feug re Synth se par r gles de la voix chant e contr l e par le geste et applications musicales PhD Thesis Universit Pierre et Marie Curie UPMC 09 2013 pdf S Le Beux Contr le gestuel de la prosodie et de la qualit vocale PhD Thesis Universit Paris Sud 12 2009
20. meters essential for the sound quality The touch technology takes advantage of a new but spreader and spreader use of fingers on phones and computer tablets Nevertheless to get an overview of the system without possessing a graphic tablet the software proposes a control with mouse and keyboard LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 5 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 3 Newsletter forum list and bug report To receive news about releases or uses of Cantor Digitalis in public performances you can subscribe to the Cantor Digitalis newsletter by following these steps e Fill your email address in the following page http sympa limsi fr wws subscribe cantordigitalis news e Then you will receive a message with a link to confirm your email You can unsubscribe from this list at any time by submitting your email in the following page http sympa limsi fr wws sigrequest cantordigitalis news To discuss about issues or if you have any comment to share with the community you can subscribe to the forum list by following these steps e Fill your email address in the following page http sympa limsi fr wws subscribe cantordigitalis forum e Then you will receive a message with a link to confirm your email To send a message to the community use the email cantordigitalis forum limsi fr You can unsubscribe from this list at any time by submitting your email in the following pages http sympa limsi fr wws sigrequest cantordigital
21. must match with the marks on the tablet Fora better sliding of the stylus on the tablet and to not damage the visual it is possible to cover it by a transparent plastic paper attached on the tablet Figure 1 Application of the visual clue on the tablet 8 LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 4 3 2 Tablet options settings Not to be disturbed by the options proposed by the tablet during the Cantor Digitalis use it is highly recommended to follow the following instructions It is nevertheless possible to jump to the part Start the software for a quick start The settings below need to be made only for the first use of a tablet with the computer Set the tablet in mode recognition data Go to the System preferences of the computer Go to the Wacom menu Double click on the tablet icon in the first banner Select recognition data in the pull down menu Disable the tablet buttons In the Wacom menu of the System preferences Select the desired tablet in the first banner Click on Functions in the second banner In the first tab ExpressKeys disable each button with the pull down menus In the second tab Touch Ring disable each function with the pull down menus In the last tab Radial Menu disable each function with the pull down menus Disable the Touch effects on the system for tablet Touch only In the Wa
22. n the stylus is moved to the bottom and inversely Figure 7 Vertical Control 16 LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 CANTOR DIGITALIS 9 Voice selection Noisy Soprano Soprano Noisy Alto USER MANUAL Child 1 Baby Extreme Voice 1 Extreme Voice 2 Extreme Voice 3 Bulgarian Style Woman Advanced Settings Figure 8 Voice Type Predefined voices are proposed in the main window of the CantorDigitalis Synth application Figure 8 It is also possible to configure manually the voice opening the window Advanced settings of the panel Voice Type Figure 9 Vocal tract size enables to change the size of the vocal tract distance between the vocal folds and the lips The size is highly correlated with the singer s size Aspiration enables to add aspiration noise in the voice It is slightly present in the voices Noisy soprano and Noisy alto Tension enables to add tension in the voice Aperiodicity enables to add irregularities in the voice at the time level of the fundamental period of the vocal fold vibration Pitch and vocal effort perturbations activates or deactivates irregularities at a greater time level perceived as a pitch or vocal effort variation O LIMSI CNRS Audio Acoustics group 2014 17 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL Voice type preset Manual settings of voice type Noisy Soprano Pitch range notes MIDI 8 43 32 67 44 79 56 91 68 103 V
23. ocal tract size Aspiration Tension Aperiodicity Pitch and vocal effort Noisy Ato cm2 20cm eke 715 cm Figure 9 Advanced settings of Voice Type Soprano In the bottom of the window Figure 10 current formants values central frequencies bandwidths amplitudes are displayed on the right side in purple They are computed after the source filter dependencies To get the input values before the source filter dependencies click on the left bang They will be displayed on the left side in the blue boxes Formant value preset Manual setting of formant values 1 Choose a voice type 2 Settle the vocal effort 3 Settle the pitch ma 1310 AGO 4 Formant value adjustment Press this button when you want to get th mpatomerciales Input formant values to be edited Formant values after source filter dependency rules not to be edited Formant n 2 Frequency Hz 1 308 04 Bandwidth Hz 10 22 7 Amplitude dB Figure 10 The current formant values and the interface for modifying them It is also possible to modify the formants values but it is not possible to play with these new values on the tablet To modify them follow the Manual setting of formant values instructions In particular you have to set the vocal effort with the slider Then click on the left bang to get the input values displayed on the left side Finally you can modify these input values by taping new values in the blu
24. pdf Journal papers C d Alessandro L Feug re S Le Beux O Perrotin A Rilliard Drawing melodies Evaluation of Chironomic Singing Synthesis J Acoust Soc Am 135 6 3601 3612 2014 pdf C d Alessandro A Rilliard S Le Beux Chironomic stylization of intonation J Acoust Soc Am 129 3 March 2011 1594 1604 pdf N d Alessandro P Woodruff Y Fabre T Dutoit S Le Beux B Doval C d Alessandro Real time and accurate musical control of expression in singing synthesis Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 1 1 pp 31 39 2007 pdf Conferences and workshop proceedings O Perrotin C d Alessandro Adaptive mapping for improved pitch accuracy on touch user interfaces Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression NIME13 Daejeon Seoul Korea Republic May 27 30 2013 pp 186 189 pdf L Feug re C d Alessandro B Doval Performative voice synthesis for edutainment in acoustic phonetics and singing a case study using the Cantor Digitalis 5th International ICST Conference INTETAIN Mons Belgium 03 07 05 07 2013 In Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment Vol 124 169 178 2013 Revised Selected Papers Springer 2013 Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering ISBN 978 3 319 03891 9 pdf L Feug re S Le Beux C d Alessandro Chorus digitalis polyphonic ges
25. re generally to use and operate it in the same conditions as regards security The fact that you are presently reading this means that you have had knowledge of the CeCILL license and that you accept its terms CantorDigitalis Tab uses S2M WACOM and S2M WACOMTOUCH Max externals and C sources for the tablet data reception 28 LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL Copyright CNRS LMA 2011 2013 Contributor Charles Gondre This software is governed by the CeCILL license under French law and abiding by the rules of distribution of free software You can use modify and or redistribute the software under the terms of the CeCILL license as circulated by CEA CNRS and INRIA at the following URL http www cecill info index en html As a counterpart to the access to the source code and rights to copy modify and redistribute granted by the license users are provided only with a limited warranty and the software s author the holder of the economic rights and the successive licensors have only limited liability In this respect the user s attention is drawn to the risks associated with loading using modifying and or developing or reproducing the software by the user in light of its specific status of free software that may mean that it is complicated to manipulate and that also therefore means that it is reserved for developers and experienced professionals having in depth computer knowledge Users
26. resets for voice categories baritone tenor alto soprano voice range profiles source filter dependencies formant and harmonic tuning high FO resolution vocal tract size vocalic space and voice quality control The software can be downloaded at the following URL http cantordigitalis limsi fr This software is governed by the CeCILL license under French law and abiding by the rules of distribution of free software You can use modify and or redistribute the software under the terms of the CeCILL license as circulated by CEA CNRS and INRIA at the following URL http www cecill info As a counterpart to the access to the source code and rights to copy modify and redistribute granted by the license users are provided only with a limited warranty and the software s author the holder of the economic rights and the successive licensors have only limited liability In this respect the user s attention is drawn to the risks associated with loading using modifying and or developing or reproducing the software by the user in light of its specific status of free software that may mean that it is complicated to manipulate and that also therefore means that it is reserved for developers and experienced professionals having in depth computer knowledge Users are therefore encouraged to load and test the software s suitability as regards their requirements in conditions enabling the security of their systems and or data to be ensured and mo
27. rmant upwards Add the 2 formant to the following moving the slider add formants upwards Add the 3 formant to the following moving the slider add formants upwards Add the 4 formant to the following moving the slider add formants upwards Add the 5 formant to the following moving the slider add formants upwards PF oO ON OV Fine settings for source 12 Control of vocal effort with the stylus 13 Add aspiration to the glottis The amplitude is set with the slider aspiration Full voice 14 Table 3 Summary of the sequences for voice construction The second mode default is a free mode allowing constructing and deconstructing the source filter model in one s own way by clicking on the different components To go back to the Cantor Digitalis in the usual mode full voice synthesis just close the Pedagogical Voice Factory window 11 4 To care before using The spectrogram window causes a high CPU usage In order to avoid a non smooth sound don t forget to let the CantorDigitalis Tab application in foreground when using the tablet 24 O LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 12 12 1 12 2 13 13 1 13 2 13 3 Settings to apply before a concert Internet Turn off the internet connection Ethernet Wi Fi System Plug the computer on sector Turn off the automatic energy saver of computer and d
28. tural singing 1st International Workshop on Performative Speech and Singing Synthesis P3S 2011 Vancouver Canada 14 03 au 15 03 2011 4p Unreferenced printed proceedings pdf S Le Beux L Feug re C d Alessandro Chorus digitalis experiment in chironomic choir singing 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association INTERSPEECH 2011 Firenze Italy August 27 31 2011 2005 2008 ISSN 1990 9772 pdf N d Alessandro C d Alessandro S Le Beux B Doval Real time calm synthesizer new approaches in hands controlled voice synthesis Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression NIME 06 pp 266 271 2006 pdf C d Alessandro N d Alessandro S Le Beux J Simko F Cetin and H Pirker The speech conductor Gestural control of speech synthesis proceedings of eNTERFACE 2005 Mons Belgium pp 52 61 pdf B Doval C d Alessandro and N Henrich The voice source as a causal anticausal linear filter In ISCA editor Proceedings of Voqual 03 Voice Quality Functions analysis and synthesis Geneva Switzerland 2003 pdf LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 15 Credits Developers Supervisor Sylvain Le Beux 2008 2009 Christophe d Alessandro 2008 2014 Boris Doval 2008 2009 2011 2012 Lionel Feug re 2010 2014 Olivier Perrotin 2013 2014 O LIMSI CNRS
29. y Correction 10 2 Audio The Audio setup panel and the corresponding window enable to set the sound reverberation to choose the audio settings and to record the produces sound 10 3 Instrument tuning The Manual tuning panel enables to set the A4 frequency along with the notes at the border of the tablet if a fine setting is needed depending on the visual clue Figure 13 Manual Tuning 20 LIMSI CNRS Audio amp Acoustics group 2014 CANTOR DIGITALIS USER MANUAL 10 4 Sending the data The Send data panel Figure 14 enables to send the synthesizer data to the exterior of the application via an UDP protocol The IP address of the receiving device is to indicate The port is included between 7400 and 7409 169 254 56 131 wd Figure 14 Send Data The data is sent as formatted message in the following way prefix value The prefix indicates the type of data The used prefixes are indicated in the table 2 Prefix Description pitch Pitch in semitones vocal_effort Normalized vocal effort 0 1 xstyl Normalized horizontal stylus position 0 1 ystyl Normalized vertical stylus position 0 1 xfing Normalized horizontal finger position 0 1 yfing Normalized vertical finger position 0 1 F1 First formant position in Hz F2 Second formant position in Hz F3 Third formant position in Hz register Register integer 31 Bulgarian style 1 Noisy soprano 21 Child

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