From nivanov@tum.de Tue Sep 19 01:00:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!tum!nivanov From: nivanov@tum.de (Natalia Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep19.010009.4789@tum.de> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 01:00:09 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Natalia Ivanov "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." NeXTstation Turbo Color / System 7.5.1 From esouza@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Sep 19 17:25:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!u-tokyo!esouza From: esouza@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Elaine Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep19.172509.6719@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 17:25:09 GMT References: <1995Sep19.010009.4789@tum.de> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep19.010009.4789@tum.de>, nivanov@tum.de (Natalia Ivanov) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Elaine Souza Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Tokyo Department of Information Science. ------------------------------------------------------------ From akang@pipeline.com Wed Sep 20 11:53:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!pipeline!akang From: akang@pipeline.com (Amy Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep20.115309.5504@pipeline.com> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:53:09 GMT References: <1995Sep19.010009.4789@tum.de> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep19.010009.4789@tum.de>, nivanov@tum.de (Natalia Ivanov) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Amy Kang *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From alarsson@uu.net Wed Sep 20 17:49:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!alarsson From: alarsson@uu.net (Aiko Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep20.174909.9881@uu.net> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 17:49:09 GMT References: <1995Sep19.010009.4789@tum.de> <1995Sep19.172509.6719@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep19.172509.6719@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, esouza@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Elaine Souza) 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. -- Aiko Larsson "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Sun SparcStation 20 / FreeBSD 2.1 From dlarsson@berkeley.edu Thu Sep 21 18:52:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!berkeley!dlarsson From: dlarsson@berkeley.edu (Diego Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep21.185209.5433@berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 18:52:09 GMT References: <1995Sep19.010009.4789@tum.de> <1995Sep19.172509.6719@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Sep20.174909.9881@uu.net> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Sep20.174909.9881@uu.net>, alarsson@uu.net (Aiko Larsson) writes: > 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. 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. -- Diego Larsson -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."