From hsantos@uu.net Sun Apr 10 13:50:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uu!hsantos From: hsantos@uu.net (Hana Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr10.135056.8882@uu.net> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 13:50:56 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 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. 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? -- Hana Santos Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From csilva@titech.ac.jp Mon Apr 11 15:51:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!titech!csilva From: csilva@titech.ac.jp (Callum Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr11.155156.9470@titech.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 15:51:56 GMT References: <1994Apr10.135056.8882@uu.net> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr10.135056.8882@uu.net>, hsantos@uu.net (Hana Santos) 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.' -- === Callum Silva === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "Marcus is not one man." From jkim@earthlink.net Tue Apr 12 16:06:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!earthlink!jkim From: jkim@earthlink.net (Julien Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr12.160656.6031@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 16:06:56 GMT References: <1994Apr10.135056.8882@uu.net> <1994Apr11.155156.9470@titech.ac.jp> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Apr11.155156.9470@titech.ac.jp>, csilva@titech.ac.jp (Callum Silva) 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. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Julien Kim Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of EarthLink Network. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mstewart@mit.edu Tue Apr 12 21:31:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!mstewart From: mstewart@mit.edu (Mateo Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr12.213156.5497@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 21:31:56 GMT References: <1994Apr10.135056.8882@uu.net> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Apr10.135056.8882@uu.net>, hsantos@uu.net (Hana Santos) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Mateo Stewart Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.