From srodriguez@rwth-aachen.de Mon May 27 16:15:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!rwth-aachen!srodriguez From: srodriguez@rwth-aachen.de (Seo-yeon Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May27.161532.8074@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 16:15:32 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Seo-yeon Rodríguez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From btakahashi@mit.edu Mon May 27 21:18:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mit!btakahashi From: btakahashi@mit.edu (Bruno Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May27.211832.6194@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 21:18:32 GMT References: <1996May27.161532.8074@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1996May27.161532.8074@rwth-aachen.de>, srodriguez@rwth-aachen.de (Seo-yeon Rodríguez) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Bruno Takahashi -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From llaurent@earthlink.net Wed May 29 00:27:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!earthlink!llaurent From: llaurent@earthlink.net (Liam Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May29.002732.2356@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 00:27:32 GMT References: <1996May27.161532.8074@rwth-aachen.de> <1996May27.211832.6194@mit.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996May27.211832.6194@mit.edu>, btakahashi@mit.edu (Bruno Takahashi) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Liam Laurent -- EarthLink Network "They will send a copy in my place."