Speak37

• Every key speaks the next word of a sentence at that key's pitch, and a chord speaks the word in harmony.
• Twenty banks of sixteen sentences hold folk songs, Latin chants, jokes, beatbox hits, spelling, numbers and eight languages, picked with PRESETS.
• PLAY speaks the sentence by itself in time from 40 to 240 BPM while the keys only choose its pitch.
• The RHYTHM page puts sixteen 808 grooves under the speech, KNOB 4 picking the groove, with TEMPO, DRUMS and SWING.
• Delay, reverb, spread, tone, metal, breath, two LFOs, glide and an envelope colour the voice.
• EDIT held switches on MOPE, a gloomy robot that remarks on your playing and every control you touch.
• SAVE held one second stores a whole sound in one of sixteen memories, and USB MIDI plays the keys, picks sentences and sets the tempo.

Its modes

PLAY

Set TEMPO, SPEED, INTONE and ROOT, and let the sentence speak itself in time while the keys only choose its pitch.

RHYTHM

Pick one of sixteen 808 grooves under the speech and set TEMPO, DRUMS, SWING and GROOVE.

MOPE

Hand the whole instrument to a gloomy robot that comments on what you play, asks for controls and plays sad pieces.

The editor (USER)

Write your own sentence word by word using the keys as letters and an English or German word list.

VOICE

Shape the vocal tract with FORMANT, BREATH, LOFI and METAL.

ENVELOPE

Set ATTACK, RELEASE, HOLD and GLIDE for the spoken notes.

MOD

Dial the vibrato and formant wobble with VIB RATE, VIB DEPTH, WOB RATE and WOB DEPTH.

DELAY

Choose digital, tape or ping-pong echo and set TIME, REPEATS and MIX.

SPACE

Add REVERB with SIZE, SPREAD and TONE.

SETUP

Set the bend range, the chord window, velocity and the TRS output.