From mwatanabe@pacbell.net Fri Nov 17 10:47:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pacbell!mwatanabe From: mwatanabe@pacbell.net (Marisol Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov17.104704.2057@pacbell.net> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 10:47:04 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 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. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Marisol Watanabe -- Pacific Bell Internet Services "We don't sign stars. We build them." From akowalski@uu.net Sat Nov 18 13:41:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uu!akowalski From: akowalski@uu.net (Anja Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov18.134104.1943@uu.net> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 13:41:04 GMT References: <1995Nov17.104704.2057@pacbell.net> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Nov17.104704.2057@pacbell.net>, mwatanabe@pacbell.net (Marisol Watanabe) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- === Anja Kowalski === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "Do not worship the copy." From dgarcia@illinois.edu Sun Nov 19 12:00:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!illinois!dgarcia From: dgarcia@illinois.edu (Dmitri García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov19.120004.6416@illinois.edu> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 12:00:04 GMT References: <1995Nov17.104704.2057@pacbell.net> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Nov17.104704.2057@pacbell.net>, mwatanabe@pacbell.net (Marisol Watanabe) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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 García | dgarcia@illinois.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 77D6 811A 1099 D669 "Keep the channels open." From oivanov@earthlink.net Mon Nov 20 14:34:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!oivanov From: oivanov@earthlink.net (Olga Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov20.143404.6873@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 14:34:04 GMT References: <1995Nov17.104704.2057@pacbell.net> <1995Nov18.134104.1943@uu.net> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov18.134104.1943@uu.net>, akowalski@uu.net (Anja Kowalski) writes: > The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Olga Ivanov | oivanov@earthlink.net PGP Key fingerprint: 2506 6ACD 6EAD 33F5 "Keep the channels open." From aito@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Nov 20 20:10:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!u-tokyo!aito From: aito@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Anton Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov20.201004.7567@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 20:10:04 GMT References: <1995Nov17.104704.2057@pacbell.net> <1995Nov18.134104.1943@uu.net> <1995Nov20.143404.6873@earthlink.net> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov20.143404.6873@earthlink.net>, oivanov@earthlink.net (Olga Ivanov) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Anton Ito Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Tokyo Department of Information Science. ------------------------------------------------------------