From teriksson@clari.net Sun May 08 06:04:50 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!clari!teriksson From: teriksson@clari.net (Tomas Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994May08.060450.4125@clari.net> Date: Sun, 08 May 1994 06:04:50 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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? -- Tomas Eriksson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of ClariNet Communications Corp. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mfournier@titech.ac.jp Sun May 08 08:37:50 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!titech!mfournier From: mfournier@titech.ac.jp (Matthias Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994May08.083750.5205@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 08 May 1994 08:37:50 GMT References: <1994May08.060450.4125@clari.net> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994May08.060450.4125@clari.net>, teriksson@clari.net (Tomas Eriksson) 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Matthias Fournier SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "Marcus is not one man." From hlindqvist@kiae.su Tue May 10 08:22:50 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kiae!hlindqvist From: hlindqvist@kiae.su (Hana Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994May10.082250.9578@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 08:22:50 GMT References: <1994May08.060450.4125@clari.net> <1994May08.083750.5205@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994May08.083750.5205@titech.ac.jp>, mfournier@titech.ac.jp (Matthias Fournier) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Hana Lindqvist -- Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "Marcus is not one man."