From dlopez@cam.ac.uk Sat Aug 20 17:43:44 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cam!dlopez From: dlopez@cam.ac.uk (Dave López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Aug20.174344.9704@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 1994 17:43:44 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. 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? -- === Dave López === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From ysouza@uu.net Sun Aug 21 03:47:44 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!uu!ysouza From: ysouza@uu.net (Yuki Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Aug21.034744.6429@uu.net> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 1994 03:47:44 GMT References: <1994Aug20.174344.9704@cam.ac.uk> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug20.174344.9704@cam.ac.uk>, dlopez@cam.ac.uk (Dave López) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. -- Yuki Souza | ysouza@uu.net PGP Key fingerprint: 4775 60B4 103C D2DB "Keep the channels open." From dtakahashi@mit.edu Mon Aug 22 15:13:44 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mit!dtakahashi From: dtakahashi@mit.edu (Dave Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Aug22.151344.2052@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 1994 15:13:44 GMT References: <1994Aug20.174344.9704@cam.ac.uk> <1994Aug21.034744.6429@uu.net> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Aug21.034744.6429@uu.net>, ysouza@uu.net (Yuki Souza) writes: > 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Dave Takahashi US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "Marcus is not one man."