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The next subject in our program is about a woman in the USA "Suzanna Ciani", and she is busy getting voices in equipment like this. Look and especially listen.........Welcome to Xenon..........
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This Suzanna Ciani, composer of electronic music. In a studio crammed with synths, amplifiers, computers and recorders, she does all the compositions herself.
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Her specialty is making background-music for movies. But now she faces a new challenge: a manufacturer of pinball machines wants special sounds for their newest game
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A double challenge: sounds vs. voices
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The pinball symphony: a new phenomenon, but where do the sounds come from? The secret is hidden in a microprocessor: a computer as large as a domino. In it, there are 48.000 parts of information stored. If you connect it to a operating computer, they will be played with the speed of sound.
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The women's voice in a pinball. But how does one get it into a chip? Besides, women's voices have a higher frequency than male voices, so therefore need almost double storage space. This chip gives Suzanna 5 seconds speechtime. Xenon..................
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The recorded sounds are being analyzed, measured and crunched in order to fit in the chip. Then they will be programmed in way that they will react on the lamps and the scored points.
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Finally, the chips are being mounted in the pinball.
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Soundchips are reasonably new. We hear Suzanna's voice for 5 seconds. But maybe in the future, we will have soundchips that will contain entire symphonies.