From dsokolov@inria.fr Sat Oct 01 08:57:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!inria!dsokolov From: dsokolov@inria.fr (Dave Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct01.085710.1776@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 01 Oct 1994 08:57:10 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Dave Sokolov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0 From yfischer@hanse.de Sun Oct 02 12:43:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!hanse!yfischer From: yfischer@hanse.de (Yuki Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct02.124310.7835@hanse.de> Date: Sun, 02 Oct 1994 12:43:10 GMT References: <1994Oct01.085710.1776@inria.fr> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct01.085710.1776@inria.fr>, dsokolov@inria.fr (Dave Sokolov) 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. 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. -- === Yuki Fischer === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."