From fhernandez@tum.de Tue Oct 08 14:35:11 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!tum!fhernandez From: fhernandez@tum.de (Freya Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct08.143511.4823@tum.de> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 14:35:11 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Freya Hernández SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "They will send a copy in my place." From adubois@mindspring.com Thu Oct 10 06:35:11 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mindspring!adubois From: adubois@mindspring.com (Astrid Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct10.063511.9382@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 06:35:11 GMT References: <1996Oct08.143511.4823@tum.de> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1996Oct08.143511.4823@tum.de>, fhernandez@tum.de (Freya Hernández) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Astrid Dubois Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mkarlsson@cmu.edu Fri Oct 11 04:04:11 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cmu!mkarlsson From: mkarlsson@cmu.edu (Matthias Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct11.040411.3082@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 04:04:11 GMT References: <1996Oct08.143511.4823@tum.de> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct08.143511.4823@tum.de>, fhernandez@tum.de (Freya Hernández) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Matthias Karlsson "Marcus is not one man." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / AmigaOS 3.1 From meriksson@panix.com Fri Oct 11 08:45:11 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!panix!meriksson From: meriksson@panix.com (Mathieu Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct11.084511.9153@panix.com> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 08:45:11 GMT References: <1996Oct08.143511.4823@tum.de> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct08.143511.4823@tum.de>, fhernandez@tum.de (Freya Hernández) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Mathieu Eriksson Zyxel U-1496E @ 19,200 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."