From rokonkwo@delphi.com Thu Aug 08 09:05:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!delphi!rokonkwo From: rokonkwo@delphi.com (Raj Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug08.090532.4098@delphi.com> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 09:05:32 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Raj Okonkwo Hayes Optima 288 @ 28,800 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From plee@inria.fr Thu Aug 08 22:37:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!inria!plee From: plee@inria.fr (Pavel Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug08.223732.4558@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 22:37:32 GMT References: <1996Aug08.090532.4098@delphi.com> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug08.090532.4098@delphi.com>, rokonkwo@delphi.com (Raj Okonkwo) 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. -- Pavel Lee Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From ikarlsson@pipeline.com Fri Aug 09 17:50:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!pipeline!ikarlsson From: ikarlsson@pipeline.com (Ines Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug09.175032.8192@pipeline.com> Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 17:50:32 GMT References: <1996Aug08.090532.4098@delphi.com> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Aug08.090532.4098@delphi.com>, rokonkwo@delphi.com (Raj Okonkwo) 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Ines Karlsson -- The Pipeline Internet Network "Marcus is not one man."