From ogirard@cern.ch Thu Sep 07 00:10:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cern!ogirard From: ogirard@cern.ch (Olga Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep07.001016.8581@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 00:10:16 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- === Olga Girard === Dept of Electrical Engineering, European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From mfournier@unam.mx Fri Sep 08 14:08:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!unam!mfournier From: mfournier@unam.mx (Marisol Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep08.140816.1924@unam.mx> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 14:08:16 GMT References: <1995Sep07.001016.8581@cern.ch> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep07.001016.8581@cern.ch>, ogirard@cern.ch (Olga Girard) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Marisol Fournier "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Decstation 5000/200 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From cgarcia@cern.ch Sun Sep 10 04:18:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cern!cgarcia From: cgarcia@cern.ch (Camila García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep10.041816.3570@cern.ch> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 04:18:16 GMT References: <1995Sep07.001016.8581@cern.ch> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Sep07.001016.8581@cern.ch>, ogirard@cern.ch (Olga Girard) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Camila García Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From rmuller@berkeley.edu Sun Sep 10 13:35:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!berkeley!rmuller From: rmuller@berkeley.edu (Raj Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep10.133516.9000@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 13:35:16 GMT References: <1995Sep07.001016.8581@cern.ch> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep07.001016.8581@cern.ch>, ogirard@cern.ch (Olga Girard) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. -- Raj Müller "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / FreeBSD 2.1 From bchoi@cam.ac.uk Sun Sep 10 17:11:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cam!bchoi From: bchoi@cam.ac.uk (Bill Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep10.171116.4624@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 17:11:16 GMT References: <1995Sep07.001016.8581@cern.ch> <1995Sep08.140816.1924@unam.mx> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep08.140816.1924@unam.mx>, mfournier@unam.mx (Marisol Fournier) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Bill Choi *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0