From vlopez@ox.ac.uk Fri Mar 17 12:45:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!ox!vlopez From: vlopez@ox.ac.uk (Valeria López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar17.124541.3383@ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 12:45:41 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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? -- Valeria López *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From nlopez@kth.se Sat Mar 18 04:40:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kth!nlopez From: nlopez@kth.se (Nadine López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar18.044041.9589@kth.se> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 04:40:41 GMT References: <1995Mar17.124541.3383@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar17.124541.3383@ox.ac.uk>, vlopez@ox.ac.uk (Valeria López) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. -- Nadine López Zyxel U-1496E @ 33,600 bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra."