From moliveira@tum.de Mon Aug 05 19:13:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!tum!moliveira From: moliveira@tum.de (Mike Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug05.191336.4418@tum.de> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 19:13:36 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 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. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Mike Oliveira "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." NeXTstation Turbo Color / Linux 1.2.13 From acampbell@cern.ch Wed Aug 07 08:07:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cern!acampbell From: acampbell@cern.ch (Anton Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug07.080736.6605@cern.ch> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 08:07:36 GMT References: <1996Aug05.191336.4418@tum.de> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1996Aug05.191336.4418@tum.de>, moliveira@tum.de (Mike Oliveira) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Anton Campbell Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From hhernandez@rwth-aachen.de Thu Aug 08 19:02:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!rwth-aachen!hhernandez From: hhernandez@rwth-aachen.de (Hugo Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug08.190236.8433@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 19:02:36 GMT References: <1996Aug05.191336.4418@tum.de> <1996Aug07.080736.6605@cern.ch> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug07.080736.6605@cern.ch>, acampbell@cern.ch (Anton Campbell) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' 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. -- Hugo Hernández *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0