Polaxis Testing some glitch sounds

video by Polaxis

Glitch looping fun

video by Polaxis

"Looping through some glitch sounds with a sequencer
Download link : https://www.polaxis.be/download/glitch/"

Talko Exploration 1: Banks

Published on Dec 4, 2015 Jean-Luc Deladrière

"Talko is an Arduino based Eurorack module that allows true LPC speech synthesis. This first demo illustrate the use of the various banks"

See the Polaxis label below for more. Note the Polaxis label was previously Deladriere. Polaxis is the brand.

VAX reading the complete Apollo 11 Mission transcript.⁣

Published on Nov 27, 2019 Polaxis

"Various DECtalk voices are used to mimic the dialog between Eagle and Houston.
End of lines are used to trigger beeps via the Aux signal.
Morse message is done with Emy in keyboard-Morse mode.
Audio Ring Modulation processed by the Zoom MS-50G.
(the VAX file is available here: https://www.polaxis.be/download/apoll...)"

Polaxis Emy/Vax now with USB keyboard entry

Published on Dec 8, 2018 Polaxis

"VAX can now be connected to a standard USB keyboard to have the text spoken live"

Polaxis Mea MIDI

video by Polaxis

Playlist:

1. Mea MIDI

Mea vox now behaves as an external MIDI instrument :
- MIDI note assigned to 39 phonemes.
- Velocity and Pitch bend supported.
- Can hold the note for singing effect.

I renamed the notes with Ableton Live MIDI Effects rack to help in sequencing phonemes by their sound. It is very easy to build a sequence!

2. Mea numbers

Emy with Mea-vox addon board. Testing the new version of the code with number grouped (0-1,0-9,0-20) Emy's Usb port is connected to a computer to render the video. (driven by the speech) inspired by Alva Noto & Anne-James Chaton

3. MEA now with phoneme groups (video done with Processing)

Emy hosting the vintage MEA8000 french speech synthesizer chip.
New Phoneme groups (Voyelles/Consonnes/Syllables/Tous)
Playing with phonemes, inspired by Alva Noto & Anne-James Chaton
Emy’s serial port connected to Processing to display the phonemes in sync.

Polaxis Emy USB Qwerty Keyboard Demo

Published on Jan 30, 2019 Polaxis

"Emy can now be connected to a USB keyboard and render sounds in 4 modes : Single key, Spell, Speak and ... Morse code"

Extended Speech Synthesis with Emy & Kaiwa from Polaxis at Superbooth 2018

Published on May 12, 2018 DivKidVideo

"Polaxis originally came into the eurorack format with their module Talko (demo here - https://youtu.be/hYwyYMML8Rg) but they've since expanded their speech synthesis range with Emy & Kaiwa. So here they are at Superbooth!

We're proud to have our Superbooth 2018 content sponsored by www.thonk.co.uk"

Radio FM vox on Polaxis Emy

video upload by Polaxis

"A little demo to show the Radio FM vox in action

The module is built with the RDA5807 FM radio chip and hosted on Emy"

Polaxis Emy LPC1

Published on Jun 15, 2017

"Cette vidéo traite de Emy LPC1"

See the Polaxis label below for more.

VAX singing compilation

Published on Nov 16, 2019 Polaxis

"In action: VAX the DECtalk speech engine for EMY in singing mode, reading song files from the SD card.

These files are just text files with phonemes duration and pitch. Many songs are lying around on the web. Check for 'DECtalk' singing or Moonbase Alpha songs...

Can you recognize them?"

Funny, almost thought someone was singing through the system. You can find more posts featuring the Polaxis EMY here.

Polaxis VAX new firmware : reading long text file

Published on Oct 25, 2019 Polaxis

"VAX now can read any text file line by line without intervention.(here connected via the USB to display each sentence - for fun).

Great to add « lyrics» to your music.

Users can choose between one read or an infinite loop.
The Sound pot is used to adjust the delay between characters.

Here playing Greta Thunberg's Speech At The U.N. Climate Action Summit"

Polaxis - Talko

Published on Apr 16, 2017 DivKidVideo

"The Talko from Polaxis is a great sound source whether it's for percussion, FX, or machine like evil vocals laying over your latest beats and drones. The general tone is fantastic and characterful even with low or high pitch and really slow glacial movement through the words, numbers and phrases. You can get creative with your sequences, MIDI or keyboard playing and play through the sounds forming your own sentences and speeches."

VAX new SD TTS modes

Published on Dec 30, 2019 Polaxis

"Now 3 mode for the VAX DECtalk submodule (using the mode switch):
1) normal mode where the CV or the Sound pot gives access to a specific line of the file (like it uses to be)
2) reading all the lines of the file, the gate triggering the next line of the file. (endless loop)
3) Endless random access on each gate trigger

in this demo, it's looping through the DNA codons table (mode2)
Emy/VAX USB connected to Processing to display the text being uttered"

Polaxis VAX DECtalk

SPO phonetic test

video upload by Polaxis

"SPO vox now can read phonetics files from the microSD card.
Emy is also sending the label over USB so #touchdesigner can generate some cool displays. (inspired by ... Kraftwerk)
Sound effect : zoom v3 vocal processor
Check www.polaxis.be : I just uploaded a dictionary of 130.000 words in phonetic format to get you started. You just have to store the text like this :
1: \WW \AX \AX \NN1
2: \TT2 \UW2
3: \TH \RR1 \IY
4: \FF \FF \OR
5: \FF \FF \AY \VV
6: \SS \SS \IH \IH \PA3 \KK2 \SS
7: \SS \SS \EH \EH \VV \IH \NN1
8: \EY \PA3 \TT2"

Polaxis Talko

Published on Apr 12, 2016 John L Rice

"Many thanks to Jean-Luc of Polaxis for sending a Talko module for me to try out and for his extreme patience in waiting for me to do something with it! This video isn't everything I had hoped to do but I'll do another one that is more creative down the road. This isn't much different than Jean-Luc's own video and in many ways I like his better! But for now . . . ."

SPO vox allophone CV control

video upload by Polaxis

"Demo to illustrate how the allophones from the SPO256AL2 can be chosen, triggered and processed in real-time

See this page for more info : https://www.polaxis.be/product/spo-vox/"

This board host the vintage General Instruments SP0256-AL2 aka SPO256-AL2 Narrator IC that was popular in the 1980s.

The SPO256-AL2 produces all the 59 phonemes of the English language.

It has a very recognizable 8-bit metallic sound.

These phonemes are individually addressable and can be chained together to create words or small sentences.

Our board adds two absent functions on the chip: pitch or inflection control and volume control.

The chip allows looping the last phoneme to generate interesting noise or steady MIDI notes.

MIDI control
MIDI note ON (first phoneme on note 36)
MIDI note OFF
Pitch Bend (can be used while the note is ON)
Velocity
Volume CC7 (can be used while the note is ON)
CV control

Phoneme
Volume
Pitch

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Emy VAX as talking printer

video upload by Polaxis

"Emy/ VAX firmware update.
It can now behave like a talking printer.
Use a standard USB port to 'print' to Emy and have VAX vocalize the text.

Here an infinite text generated by markovify a Markov chain algorithm in python using a text from Project Gutenberg: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle"

Emy new firmware loader

Published on Dec 23, 2019 Polaxis

"You can now keep various firmware on the SD card to switch from one version to the other from the main menu.
Useful if you have an add-on board or you want to play with the MIDI version of the code."

Emy firmware update: now with the Speak & Spell sounds

Published on Oct 16, 2019 Polaxis

"Added the beeps and the voice from the Speak&Spell to Emy’s latest firmware. Here in the standalone Terminal version with wireless keyboards.⁣"

Robovox Numbers demo

Published on Apr 4, 2020 Polaxis

"Robovox installed in Terminal, the standalone version of Emy
Sequenced in MIDI, white noise as an external carrier for the growling vocoder effect."