Package: autotalent
Version: 0.2-4
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
The package description for autotalent contains a trivial grammatical
error.
> Package: autotalent
[...]
> Description: pitch correction LADSPA plugin
> Autotalent is a real-time pitch correction plugin. Users can specify
> the notes that a singer is allowed to hit, and Autotalent makes sure
> that they do. Autotalent may be used for more exotic effects, like
> the Cher / T-Pain effect, making your voice sound like a chiptune,
> adding artificial vibrato, or messing with your formants. Autotalent
> can also be used as a harmonizer that knows how to sing in the scale
> with you. Or, you can use Autotalent to change the scale of a melody
> between major and minor or to change the musical mode.
(So far so good... note that the user is consistently being addressed
as "you".)
> .
> Autotalent was designed from the ground up to process musical melodies,
> whether sung by voice or played on some kind of instrument.
"Sung by voice" is a bit unidiomatic - after all, singing is always
"by voice". The simplest fix is to drop those two words.
> As long as
> one gives it a monophonic source (i.e. a melody in a single, 1-channel
> track), he can usually expects pretty good results.
Referring to the user as "one" is oddly formal English when it's
surrounded by examples of referring to the user as "you"; and then it
leads to an unnecessarily gender-biassed use of "he" and a verb
agreement error, "can expects". Make this "As long as you give it
[...], you can usually expect [...]".
> So this means that
> if you're in the business of processing vocal harmonies, you should
> apply it to each monophonic vocal part separately. If in the spirit of
> experimentation you're daring enough to try tuning or pitch shifting
> an entire chord using one instance of the plugin (again not what it's
> meant for), you'll hear gritty nastiness.
All fine.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
diff -ru autotalent-0.2.pristine/debian/control autotalent-0.2/debian/control
--- autotalent-0.2.pristine/debian/control 2014-06-18 13:12:29.000000000 +0100
+++ autotalent-0.2/debian/control 2015-05-13 16:32:58.398809002 +0100
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@
between major and minor or to change the musical mode.
.
Autotalent was designed from the ground up to process musical melodies,
- whether sung by voice or played on some kind of instrument. As long as
- one gives it a monophonic source (i.e. a melody in a single, 1-channel
- track), he can usually expects pretty good results. So this means that
+ whether sung or played on some kind of instrument. As long as you
+ give it a monophonic source (i.e. a melody in a single, 1-channel
+ track), you can usually expect pretty good results. So this means that
if you're in the business of processing vocal harmonies, you should
apply it to each monophonic vocal part separately. If in the spirit of
experimentation you're daring enough to try tuning or pitch shifting
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