From srodriguez@kiae.su Wed Dec 28 23:16:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kiae!srodriguez From: srodriguez@kiae.su (Sun-mi Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec28.231632.6711@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 23:16:32 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. 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? -- Sun-mi Rodríguez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ehughes@hanse.de Thu Dec 29 11:53:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!hanse!ehughes From: ehughes@hanse.de (Elaine Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec29.115332.2325@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 11:53:32 GMT References: <1994Dec28.231632.6711@kiae.su> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Dec28.231632.6711@kiae.su>, srodriguez@kiae.su (Sun-mi Rodríguez) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Elaine Hughes Hayes Optima 288 @ 19,200 bps "Do not worship the copy." From bokonkwo@netcom.com Sat Dec 31 11:41:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!netcom!bokonkwo From: bokonkwo@netcom.com (Bill Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec31.114132.4254@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1994 11:41:32 GMT References: <1994Dec28.231632.6711@kiae.su> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1994Dec28.231632.6711@kiae.su>, srodriguez@kiae.su (Sun-mi Rodríguez) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Bill Okonkwo US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them."