From mrobertson@pacbell.net Mon Feb 07 13:38:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pacbell!mrobertson From: mrobertson@pacbell.net (Mateo Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb07.133843.7269@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 13:38:43 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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. -- Mateo Robertson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From dstewart@utexas.edu Mon Feb 07 21:30:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!utexas!dstewart From: dstewart@utexas.edu (Dong-hyun Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb07.213043.5324@utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 21:30:43 GMT References: <1994Feb07.133843.7269@pacbell.net> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Feb07.133843.7269@pacbell.net>, mrobertson@pacbell.net (Mateo Robertson) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Dong-hyun Stewart | dstewart@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 12FE 1174 BA86 F294 "Keep the channels open." From dhernandez@cmu.edu Tue Feb 08 12:24:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cmu!dhernandez From: dhernandez@cmu.edu (Dong-hyun Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb08.122443.9413@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 1994 12:24:43 GMT References: <1994Feb07.133843.7269@pacbell.net> <1994Feb07.213043.5324@utexas.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb07.213043.5324@utexas.edu>, dstewart@utexas.edu (Dong-hyun Stewart) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Dong-hyun Hernández "Do not worship the copy." Acorn RiscPC 600 / SunOS 4.1.4 From mweber@clari.net Wed Feb 09 17:57:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!clari!mweber From: mweber@clari.net (Mathieu Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb09.175743.2130@clari.net> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 1994 17:57:43 GMT References: <1994Feb07.133843.7269@pacbell.net> <1994Feb07.213043.5324@utexas.edu> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1994Feb07.213043.5324@utexas.edu>, dstewart@utexas.edu (Dong-hyun Stewart) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Mathieu Weber Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From bkim@pipeline.com Thu Feb 10 16:32:43 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pipeline!bkim From: bkim@pipeline.com (Brian Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb10.163243.6577@pipeline.com> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 16:32:43 GMT References: <1994Feb07.133843.7269@pacbell.net> <1994Feb07.213043.5324@utexas.edu> <1994Feb08.122443.9413@cmu.edu> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb08.122443.9413@cmu.edu>, dhernandez@cmu.edu (Dong-hyun Hernández) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Brian Kim | bkim@pipeline.com PGP Key fingerprint: 3181 ACBF 812C 5953 "Keep the channels open."