From hfournier@uu.net Sun Aug 20 13:35:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uu!hfournier From: hfournier@uu.net (Hana Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug20.133503.8793@uu.net> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 13:35:03 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Hana Fournier *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From koliveira@netcom.com Mon Aug 21 01:06:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!netcom!koliveira From: koliveira@netcom.com (Katrin Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug21.010603.2257@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 01:06:03 GMT References: <1995Aug20.133503.8793@uu.net> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug20.133503.8793@uu.net>, hfournier@uu.net (Hana Fournier) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Katrin Oliveira Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From oweber@earthlink.net Tue Aug 22 13:10:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!earthlink!oweber From: oweber@earthlink.net (Olga Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug22.131003.5451@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 13:10:03 GMT References: <1995Aug20.133503.8793@uu.net> <1995Aug21.010603.2257@netcom.com> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug21.010603.2257@netcom.com>, koliveira@netcom.com (Katrin Oliveira) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Olga Weber -- EarthLink Network "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From vbrennan@demon.co.uk Thu Aug 24 00:46:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!demon!vbrennan From: vbrennan@demon.co.uk (Valeria Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug24.004603.5191@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 00:46:03 GMT References: <1995Aug20.133503.8793@uu.net> <1995Aug21.010603.2257@netcom.com> <1995Aug22.131003.5451@earthlink.net> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug22.131003.5451@earthlink.net>, oweber@earthlink.net (Olga Weber) writes: > If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. > Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Valeria Brennan Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.