From tramirez@rwth-aachen.de Mon Aug 08 19:30:20 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!rwth-aachen!tramirez From: tramirez@rwth-aachen.de (Thiago Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Aug08.193020.9450@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 1994 19:30:20 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- Thiago Ramírez "Hold for relay." Macintosh IIfx / FreeBSD 2.1 From gmoreno@ox.ac.uk Wed Aug 10 12:52:20 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!ox!gmoreno From: gmoreno@ox.ac.uk (Göran Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Aug10.125220.1881@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 12:52:20 GMT References: <1994Aug08.193020.9450@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug08.193020.9450@rwth-aachen.de>, tramirez@rwth-aachen.de (Thiago Ramírez) writes: > I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. Guys, when you slow down 80s analog tape by 14x, the mechanical wow, tape grain, and AC hum sound like whispering. It's acoustic pareidolia. -- Göran Moreno *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From mduarte@clari.net Thu Aug 11 08:11:20 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!clari!mduarte From: mduarte@clari.net (Mateo Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Aug11.081120.9528@clari.net> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 1994 08:11:20 GMT References: <1994Aug08.193020.9450@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug08.193020.9450@rwth-aachen.de>, tramirez@rwth-aachen.de (Thiago Ramírez) writes: > I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. > When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Mateo Duarte Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From srobertson@uu.net Fri Aug 12 13:02:20 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!srobertson From: srobertson@uu.net (Sergei Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Aug12.130220.7096@uu.net> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 1994 13:02:20 GMT References: <1994Aug08.193020.9450@rwth-aachen.de> <1994Aug10.125220.1881@ox.ac.uk> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug10.125220.1881@ox.ac.uk>, gmoreno@ox.ac.uk (Göran Moreno) writes: > Guys, when you slow down 80s analog tape by 14x, the mechanical wow, tape grain, and AC hum sound like whispering. It's acoustic pareidolia. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- === Sergei Robertson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From tmuller@utexas.edu Sat Aug 13 21:23:20 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!utexas!tmuller From: tmuller@utexas.edu (Takeshi Müller) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Aug13.212320.3369@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 1994 21:23:20 GMT References: <1994Aug08.193020.9450@rwth-aachen.de> <1994Aug10.125220.1881@ox.ac.uk> <1994Aug12.130220.7096@uu.net> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug12.130220.7096@uu.net>, srobertson@uu.net (Sergei Robertson) writes: > Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. Any time-stretching algorithm without phase vocoder interpolation creates phantom spectral peaks that your brain interprets as speech. -- Takeshi Müller "They will send a copy in my place." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / NEXTSTEP 3.3