From ynovak@earthlink.net Wed Nov 09 18:29:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!earthlink!ynovak From: ynovak@earthlink.net (Yuki Novak) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Nov09.182935.9930@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 09 Nov 1994 18:29:35 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Yuki Novak "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Sun SparcStation 20 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From tsokolov@unam.mx Thu Nov 10 20:56:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!unam!tsokolov From: tsokolov@unam.mx (Tobias Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Nov10.205635.3003@unam.mx> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 20:56:35 GMT References: <1994Nov09.182935.9930@earthlink.net> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Nov09.182935.9930@earthlink.net>, ynovak@earthlink.net (Yuki Novak) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Tobias Sokolov "A soul is not exclusive to biology." Acorn RiscPC 600 / NEXTSTEP 3.3