OK, is everyone setting down?
If not...be sure to.

Tonight I met Craig Knudsen of Yamaha. Sweewater had him in to launch their new line...Clavinovas and Pianos from Yamaha. He did a super demo, performance, and fun presentation, highlighting the 509. What a fine gentleman and a VERY talented player. He is a heavy hitter at Yamaha and works with Tyros, Clavinova and Disklaveir. Works with Martin Harris regularly.

But, here is the real story...do you wish you could sing IN PITCH? I sure do and I have asked for and always thought this is possible with todays technology...well IT IS!!!

Enough said...just go watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaIiuSglLMY

What do you think?
To me it sounds VERY good and not fake or digital.

One word.

WOW! It was so smooth so natural. I dont think TC Helicon can do this. I used to have a Pa1x with the optional pitch correction and voice modelling, this just blows it away.

Am looking into another TOTL arranger, was considering very strongly the Pa3x, now im unsure. If yamaha can come up with this through a software update maybe they have learned a little from korg on releasing updates and upgrades to their machines.

David

That was great.
Any Idea when and where we might see this technology on the market?
Thanks
Eric

Maybe I'm missing something here but what are you doing in the music business if you can't sing on pitch?

Joe

Well Joe,
there you go we are all not as well blessed vocally as you, some of us have not had the professional voice training like you, some of us can just about get away with saying we can sing, especially when we sing in front of old people who are part deaf or tone deaf. Joe if the technology is there Yamaha will use it to sell KBS what wrong with that. Don’t you use echo or reverberation on your KB or is that you straight voice. Life has moved on from the Bontempi , C3 etc, spring reverberation units and copy cat tape echo.


Tonyneeeeeeeeeeeee!

There you are pitch perfect joe.

David,

And WOW from me. I can't sing a freaking note but the christmas I am booked at the home for wrinkles near me, $300 for 1 hour,

MY WAY
STAND BY YOUR BED (MAN)
WE'LL MEET AGAIN

and all that old stuff, they will be rocking in their wheelchairs.
I might even enter "Britains got Talent" watch out Simon

Hi Lee,
that looks like a lot of fun if one can't sing in tune. I've got such a lousy voice , I don't think I'd even be game with that option. haa haa

I've never tried using a vocalizer on the pa800 ( totally wasted on me) , but what would be the difference between that and what's in the Korg? I was just browsing the pa3x manual & noticed it had some sort of pitch correction onboard, I gather the PA2x had it also??
I can't try it coz I don't own a mic.

Is this real done on the T4 ??
And how ??

Impuls

Singing is not always about vocal capabilities look for example at Joe Dassin who has not very powerful voice but he is loved by lots of people (I know he’s dead now BTW). And what this man showed in this video is mostly fun but I don’t think that singing is about that. I think that it’s rather a wrong track.

I've heard plenty of "singers" that can't sing on pitch and on top of it get paid a lot of money.

Actually, you've got to remember, this is mainly intended for fun use in the home. Or is it? I could use it as I'm an instrumentalist.