From lmoreno@kiae.su Sat Jun 03 20:44:16 1995
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From: lmoreno@kiae.su (Lisa Moreno)
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Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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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?

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Lisa Moreno
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow.
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From rlarsson@kth.se Mon Jun 05 17:55:16 1995
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From: rlarsson@kth.se (Raj Larsson)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Jun03.204416.3569@kiae.su>, lmoreno@kiae.su (Lisa Moreno) writes:
> Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model.

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Raj Larsson -- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
"They will send a copy in my place."