Wolfgang Palm has released PPG Phonem for iPad – a software synthesizer designed for expressive vocal synthesis – for US $19.99.

You can use a  built-in text-to-speech tool to make Phonem say anything you like. And an advance routing system lets you tweak and control every aspect of the synthesized voice. 

Here’s a video demo:

Using the Phonem program browser:

Using the Phonem Audio Unit Extension:

Using the load-filter to create new sounds:

Features:

• Create your own singing style and expressions
• Large Phoneme inventory – 46 english/american plus 5 german plus 4 french phonemes
• Versatile excitation generator/oscillator
• Working with typical voice source or wavetable and time-corrected-samples (TCS)
• Extreme time stretching, freezing and reversing
• Pitch track – let your robots sing
• Control track – let it cry and shout
• Song mode – making it easy to compose your synthesized text
• Wave page – create your own wavetables and modify time-corrected-samples
• Import WTS and TCS files from the iPad WaveGenerator and WaveMapper
• All internal parameters available to the user – give your voices a special dialect or individual character
• Versatile matrix system – allowing 19 sources to control 40 parameters
• Two X/Y control pads freely routable to 40 parameters
• 6 Envelopes, for control of filter sweeps, waveform, noise and many modulations
• 4 LFOs plus Vibrato, Flutter and Growl generators
• Fully programmable resonator filter – allowing production of new sound effects
• Delay/Reverb effect
• Overdrive/Distortion effect
• A/B compare your edited sounds
• AU extension – run multiple Phonem instances in AU hosts
• IAA – inter-app audio support
• Audiobus 2 with statesaving
• 10 min audio recording and Audio copy to the pasteboard
• Redesigned browser with new listing filters
• Directly accessible context help for each module
• Freely configurable schematic keypads, with extremely expressive modulation options
• 4 Keypads play modes: Poly, Mono, Legato and Multitrigger.
• 4 MIDI modes: Omni, Poly, Mono, and Voice-Per-Channel.

Pricing and Availability

PPG Phonem Synthesizer is available now for US $19.99.

If you’ve used Phonem, share your thought on it in the comments!