Cantor Digitalis by LIMSI-CNRS

Cantor Digitalis is a singing voice synthesizer controlled using chironomy, i.e. hand gestures, with the help of interfaces like stylus or fingers on a graphic tablet or computer mouse. To play Cantor Digitalis, plug your graphic tablet to the computer running the provided software.

Select your voice type (lyric like soprano or tenor, or bulgarian traditional, baby, ...), or build your own voice from settings such as the singer size, its pitch range, and different voice quality parameters (tension, breathiness, roughness). Holding the stylus in your preferred hand, you control the vocal effort with the stylus pressure on the tablet while changing the voice pitch by shifting the stylus horizontally. With your other hand, choose and change continuously the vowel moving a finger on the surface of the tablet.

Play, or rather sing, speak, laugh ! Nothing is simpler than singing accurately thanks to the visual clues applied on the tablet indicating the note positions, and to an automatic and intelligent accuracy correction. It is even possible to create monster or animal voices (giant, zombie, lion, sea gull, etc. ) or various electroacoustic sounds (wind, foghorn, percussions, etc. ).

Free software for Max OS, optimised for the Wacom tablet.

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