Music educator Don Lewis performs an impressive vocal synthesis rendition of Amazing Grace, using the Roland VP-770 Vocal & Ensemble Keyboard.
Roland designed the VP-770 for a new category of musician - the vocal synthesist. And, as Lewis' performance demonstrates, the VP-770 is actually making that a viable category, letting you create very musical backing parts, such as a large gospel choir.
Pretty amazing, isn't it?
More demo performances are available at the Roland YouTube channel.
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The second part of his demo sounds even better. It's at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEZNd8VAYxk&annotation_id=annotation_890996&feature=iv
I'm still hoping they'll make a vocoder fx pedal.
08-Jul-09 09:49 AM
The technology is just not there yet in these keyboards. They still sound like a choir of Cylons no matter what they do to dress it up.
08-Jul-09 11:05 AM
Hmmm - true, but it does sound wonderful even if it has an artificial edge in places. Aside from that, I'd pay to see a choir of Cylons. And not the new ones, the original cylons. :-)
08-Jul-09 11:21 AM
Yeah but they still sing better than he does
09-Jul-09 07:44 AM
This is totally beside the point, but does anybody remember the original BSG singers that had to mouths each, and sang a song called "Love, Love, Love"?
09-Jul-09 04:52 PM
I thought this demo did sound a bit vocoderish. I do recommend listening to part 2.
10-Jul-09 09:50 AM
@madmax: Electro-Harmonix makes a really nice vocoder pedal called The Voice Box.
28-Jul-09 04:44 PM