From divanov@clari.net Fri Jan 05 10:40:02 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!clari!divanov From: divanov@clari.net (Diego Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan05.104002.7323@clari.net> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 10:40:02 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Diego Ivanov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From rpopov@mit.edu Sat Jan 06 03:13:02 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mit!rpopov From: rpopov@mit.edu (Raj Popov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan06.031302.8084@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 03:13:02 GMT References: <1996Jan05.104002.7323@clari.net> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Jan05.104002.7323@clari.net>, divanov@clari.net (Diego Ivanov) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Raj Popov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From pmoreno@ox.ac.uk Sat Jan 06 20:00:02 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!ox!pmoreno From: pmoreno@ox.ac.uk (Pavel Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan06.200002.1537@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 20:00:02 GMT References: <1996Jan05.104002.7323@clari.net> <1996Jan06.031302.8084@mit.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan06.031302.8084@mit.edu>, rpopov@mit.edu (Raj Popov) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Pavel Moreno Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "They will send a copy in my place." From lsantos@tum.de Mon Jan 08 17:02:02 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!tum!lsantos From: lsantos@tum.de (Liam Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan08.170202.9673@tum.de> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 17:02:02 GMT References: <1996Jan05.104002.7323@clari.net> <1996Jan06.031302.8084@mit.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan06.031302.8084@mit.edu>, rpopov@mit.edu (Raj Popov) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- === Liam Santos === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Technische Universität München "Do not worship the copy."