From tandersson@titech.ac.jp Thu Jul 11 20:26:29 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!titech!tandersson From: tandersson@titech.ac.jp (Thiago Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul11.202629.3253@titech.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 20:26:29 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 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. 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? -- Thiago Andersson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From hgonzalez@uni-hamburg.de Sat Jul 13 05:16:29 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uni-hamburg!hgonzalez From: hgonzalez@uni-hamburg.de (Hugo González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul13.051629.2087@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 05:16:29 GMT References: <1996Jul11.202629.3253@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul11.202629.3253@titech.ac.jp>, tandersson@titech.ac.jp (Thiago Andersson) 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. -- Hugo González Hayes Optima 288 @ 19,200 bps "Row 14. No joke." From mtakahashi@kth.se Mon Jul 15 01:45:29 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!mtakahashi From: mtakahashi@kth.se (Marta Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul15.014529.1165@kth.se> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 01:45:29 GMT References: <1996Jul11.202629.3253@titech.ac.jp> <1996Jul13.051629.2087@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul13.051629.2087@uni-hamburg.de>, hgonzalez@uni-hamburg.de (Hugo González) 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. -- Marta Takahashi | mtakahashi@kth.se PGP Key fingerprint: 140D 7647 F6C0 398B "Keep the channels open." From fmuller@purdue.edu Mon Jul 15 19:47:29 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!purdue!fmuller From: fmuller@purdue.edu (Freya Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul15.194729.9080@purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 19:47:29 GMT References: <1996Jul11.202629.3253@titech.ac.jp> <1996Jul13.051629.2087@uni-hamburg.de> <1996Jul15.014529.1165@kth.se> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul15.014529.1165@kth.se>, mtakahashi@kth.se (Marta Takahashi) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. 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. -- === Freya Müller === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"