From cnakamura@delphi.com Thu Jun 02 22:10:16 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!delphi!cnakamura From: cnakamura@delphi.com (Callum Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jun02.221016.5988@delphi.com> Date: Thu, 02 Jun 1994 22:10:16 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. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Callum Nakamura | cnakamura@delphi.com PGP Key fingerprint: 586F BDF7 1A74 3860 "Keep the channels open." From mdubois@kth.se Fri Jun 03 00:20:16 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kth!mdubois From: mdubois@kth.se (Min-jun Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jun03.002016.1442@kth.se> Date: Fri, 03 Jun 1994 00:20:16 GMT References: <1994Jun02.221016.5988@delphi.com> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Jun02.221016.5988@delphi.com>, cnakamura@delphi.com (Callum Nakamura) writes: > 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Min-jun Dubois Zyxel U-1496E @ 19,200 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology."