Text to Speech
On Report a Crash I first got into using text to speech using this website. You can create whatever lyrics you want, and edit those to your comfort. Later on with Who let the Yeti out I used this program. The quality of the vocals on these websites are usually quite bad, so you have to put quite a lot of effects of them so make them sound decent. Problem is, sometimes you don't want spoken vocals, but sung.
Create your own vocals

A cappella's
So you want to get some already made vocals. But where to get these vocals? Some websites offer free a capella's, you could use google, or get some home sung. Other websites offer paid acapella's, but be careful though, a lot of them are low quality and therefore not very usable. It's can be quite hard to find an a capella of a specific song, so you might have to browse through lists and lists to see if there's anything that fits you. Another possibility is to do it yourself and, like always, there are Youtube tutorials for it.
So finding or making vocals can take quite a bit of work, but once you've finished your track it's all worth it. Even if it's just a couple words it can really give your track that catchy hook that will make your listeners remember it.
3 comments:
Nice post man. If you really wanted, you could buy this plugin called Antares Auto-Tune Evo. You pick what scale you are singing in, and the software will correct your pitch exactly, and it sounds as if you really sang the note. Also you can add effects such as transposing down an octave to get that deep dubstep voice, or add the T-Pain Effect, etc. It reaaly is great, but costs about $200. I'm sure if anyone is in to cracking though they could find it on the internet, but I don't recommend it.
Hey man, how do you get the youtube link button at the top. I'd appreciate it if you told me on my blog or on digg. Nice blog in general by the way; good posts and interface.
Thank you, I'll look into that plug-in to see if it's anything I could use. I've used some effect groups before to get a 'phone' effect or a 'freak voice' effect before, but I still want learn how to auto-tune, wether I'll use it or not.
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