From seriksson@inria.fr Sun Sep 24 11:13:53 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!seriksson From: seriksson@inria.fr (Steve Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep24.111353.6014@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 11:13:53 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. 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? -- Steve Eriksson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------ From slaurent@mit.edu Mon Sep 25 13:56:53 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mit!slaurent From: slaurent@mit.edu (Seo-yeon Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep25.135653.7129@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 13:56:53 GMT References: <1995Sep24.111353.6014@inria.fr> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep24.111353.6014@inria.fr>, seriksson@inria.fr (Steve Eriksson) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. -- Seo-yeon Laurent *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0 From amacdonald@cmu.edu Wed Sep 27 01:48:53 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cmu!amacdonald From: amacdonald@cmu.edu (Anja MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep27.014853.7338@cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 01:48:53 GMT References: <1995Sep24.111353.6014@inria.fr> <1995Sep25.135653.7129@mit.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep25.135653.7129@mit.edu>, slaurent@mit.edu (Seo-yeon Laurent) 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. -- Anja MacDonald US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens."