From aokonkwo@delphi.com Sat Dec 09 03:53:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!delphi!aokonkwo From: aokonkwo@delphi.com (Andrei Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec09.035356.1909@delphi.com> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1995 03:53:56 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. 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? -- Andrei Okonkwo US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From thughes@cmu.edu Sun Dec 10 03:29:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cmu!thughes From: thughes@cmu.edu (Thiago Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec10.032956.8328@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 03:29:56 GMT References: <1995Dec09.035356.1909@delphi.com> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Dec09.035356.1909@delphi.com>, aokonkwo@delphi.com (Andrei Okonkwo) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Thiago Hughes Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From djohansson@mindspring.com Mon Dec 11 11:01:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!mindspring!djohansson From: djohansson@mindspring.com (Dmitri Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec11.110156.3546@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 11:01:56 GMT References: <1995Dec09.035356.1909@delphi.com> <1995Dec10.032956.8328@cmu.edu> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Dec10.032956.8328@cmu.edu>, thughes@cmu.edu (Thiago Hughes) 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. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Dmitri Johansson "Row 14. No joke." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From rnakamura@utexas.edu Tue Dec 12 12:09:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!utexas!rnakamura From: rnakamura@utexas.edu (Renata Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec12.120956.1098@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 12:09:56 GMT References: <1995Dec09.035356.1909@delphi.com> <1995Dec10.032956.8328@cmu.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Dec10.032956.8328@cmu.edu>, thughes@cmu.edu (Thiago Hughes) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Renata Nakamura -- University of Texas at Austin "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From mlindqvist@clari.net Thu Dec 14 04:50:56 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!clari!mlindqvist From: mlindqvist@clari.net (Matthias Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec14.045056.7072@clari.net> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 04:50:56 GMT References: <1995Dec09.035356.1909@delphi.com> <1995Dec10.032956.8328@cmu.edu> <1995Dec12.120956.1098@utexas.edu> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec12.120956.1098@utexas.edu>, rnakamura@utexas.edu (Renata Nakamura) writes: > If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Matthias Lindqvist Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."