From hpark@demon.co.uk Tue Jul 12 16:19:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!demon!hpark From: hpark@demon.co.uk (Heather Park) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul12.161959.5067@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 16:19:59 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. 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? -- Heather Park *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From icampbell@mindspring.com Wed Jul 13 10:14:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mindspring!icampbell From: icampbell@mindspring.com (Ines Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul13.101459.2637@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 10:14:59 GMT References: <1994Jul12.161959.5067@demon.co.uk> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul12.161959.5067@demon.co.uk>, hpark@demon.co.uk (Heather Park) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Ines Campbell Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of MindSpring Enterprises. ------------------------------------------------------------