From jgonzalez@inria.fr Sat Feb 03 23:17:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!jgonzalez From: jgonzalez@inria.fr (Joachim González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Feb03.231734.3325@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 23:17:34 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'. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Joachim González Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "Do not worship the copy." From bchoi@utexas.edu Mon Feb 05 08:07:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!utexas!bchoi From: bchoi@utexas.edu (Brian Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Feb05.080734.9203@utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 08:07:34 GMT References: <1996Feb03.231734.3325@inria.fr> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Feb03.231734.3325@inria.fr>, jgonzalez@inria.fr (Joachim González) writes: > 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. 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. -- Brian Choi | bchoi@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: DE00 34DD 2F88 5575 "Keep the channels open." From mmoreno@hanse.de Mon Feb 05 14:30:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!hanse!mmoreno From: mmoreno@hanse.de (Mei Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Feb05.143034.5928@hanse.de> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 14:30:34 GMT References: <1996Feb03.231734.3325@inria.fr> <1996Feb05.080734.9203@utexas.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Feb05.080734.9203@utexas.edu>, bchoi@utexas.edu (Brian Choi) 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Mei Moreno Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg. ------------------------------------------------------------ From trodriguez@unam.mx Tue Feb 06 17:41:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!unam!trodriguez From: trodriguez@unam.mx (Takeshi Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Feb06.174134.7836@unam.mx> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 17:41:34 GMT References: <1996Feb03.231734.3325@inria.fr> <1996Feb05.080734.9203@utexas.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb05.080734.9203@utexas.edu>, bchoi@utexas.edu (Brian Choi) 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. -- Takeshi Rodríguez "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / FreeBSD 2.1