Jan 07
Fred and Victoria Apple’s new dance sensation?
2004 at 11.54 am posted by Veerle
It’s common knowledge that Macs are being used by great music artists such as Moby, Seal, Faithless, BT etc. But now Mac voices used for speech are also becoming musical artists themselves! Here is a true story, ever heard the single “Satisfaction” of Benny Benassi with those Mac voices? Victoria goes single in his new smashing dance tune “Able To Love”...! Do we have 2 Mac celebrities? :-D
Introducing… Fred (age 30), Victoria (age 35), Apple’s cute voices. They began their “love story” in Benny Benassi’s “Satisfaction”. But maybe Victoria didn’t get her satisfaction after all since she’s going solo in Benny’s new sound track “Able to Love”. Again, a very cool way to make an original tune! Aren’t those Mac voices cool :-D
I hope Steve Jobs realizes now his 2 celebrities have become techno/dance idols :-P
Listen to those 2 smashing sound tracks and find out yourself!
If you like them, buy these songs at Amazon
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Wow! Actually I really like Satisfaction but I’ve never thought it could have sth to do with Mac. Very funny to know, indeed.
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These Mac voices already exist for a long time and they are prefect to use in this style of music. There were already songs that used them but never as clever as Benny Benassi has done. The way Victoria says “satisfaction” makes me smile every time :-)
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Trent Reznor and Marilyn Manson used ‘princess’ and ‘whisper’ and some other mac voices, with spectaculary spooky effects. If you feel up to it, listen to Marilyn Manson’s ‘antichrist Superstar’.
Also a few years ago, there was this (utterly horrible) ‘gabber’tune ‘ruffneck rules da artcorescene’ which was nothing more than mac voice ‘organ’ with 5.000.000 bpm bassline behind it ;)
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A good mac voice song is Radiohead’s “Fitter Happier”.
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Hi there ive been working with the apple speach sinth for a long time using custom software to change the mac voice. most of my gigs are made in this way
http://www.ontto.net/jon/Speech-harp.mp3
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@Jon, thanks for sharing this. It was fun listening to your work. Very creative! ;-) These voices are so cool to play with :-)