From kito@illinois.edu Wed Sep 20 22:13:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!illinois!kito From: kito@illinois.edu (Kenji Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep20.221320.1623@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 22:13:20 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Kenji Ito Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------ From dfischer@mindspring.com Fri Sep 22 05:43:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mindspring!dfischer From: dfischer@mindspring.com (Dong-hyun Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep22.054320.3925@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 05:43:20 GMT References: <1995Sep20.221320.1623@illinois.edu> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep20.221320.1623@illinois.edu>, kito@illinois.edu (Kenji Ito) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Dong-hyun Fischer Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of MindSpring Enterprises. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mmacdonald@clari.net Sat Sep 23 22:16:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!clari!mmacdonald From: mmacdonald@clari.net (Marta MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep23.221620.2043@clari.net> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 22:16:20 GMT References: <1995Sep20.221320.1623@illinois.edu> <1995Sep22.054320.3925@mindspring.com> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep22.054320.3925@mindspring.com>, dfischer@mindspring.com (Dong-hyun Fischer) writes: > The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Marta MacDonald *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From mdubois@demon.co.uk Mon Sep 25 06:24:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!demon!mdubois From: mdubois@demon.co.uk (Mei Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep25.062420.4521@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 06:24:20 GMT References: <1995Sep20.221320.1623@illinois.edu> <1995Sep22.054320.3925@mindspring.com> <1995Sep23.221620.2043@clari.net> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Sep23.221620.2043@clari.net>, mmacdonald@clari.net (Marta MacDonald) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Mei Dubois -- Demon Internet Services UK "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From msilva@unam.mx Tue Sep 26 15:43:20 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!unam!msilva From: msilva@unam.mx (Matthias Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep26.154320.9910@unam.mx> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 15:43:20 GMT References: <1995Sep20.221320.1623@illinois.edu> <1995Sep22.054320.3925@mindspring.com> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep22.054320.3925@mindspring.com>, dfischer@mindspring.com (Dong-hyun Fischer) writes: > The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Matthias Silva *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0