From krodriguez@rwth-aachen.de Thu May 23 17:21:06 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!rwth-aachen!krodriguez From: krodriguez@rwth-aachen.de (Kirsty Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May23.172106.6713@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 17:21:06 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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? -- Kirsty Rodríguez | krodriguez@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: 1C7C 3581 1D51 5C70 "Keep the channels open." From fgonzalez@panix.com Fri May 24 23:29:06 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!panix!fgonzalez From: fgonzalez@panix.com (Freya González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May24.232906.7321@panix.com> Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 23:29:06 GMT References: <1996May23.172106.6713@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996May23.172106.6713@rwth-aachen.de>, krodriguez@rwth-aachen.de (Kirsty Rodríguez) writes: > 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Freya González Zyxel U-1496E @ 19,200 bps "Hold for relay."