From efournier@pacbell.net Tue Mar 19 15:04:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!pacbell!efournier From: efournier@pacbell.net (Élodie Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Mar19.150436.2936@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 15:04:36 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Élodie Fournier *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From ssouza@purdue.edu Thu Mar 21 14:55:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!purdue!ssouza From: ssouza@purdue.edu (Sun-mi Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Mar21.145536.5677@purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:55:36 GMT References: <1996Mar19.150436.2936@pacbell.net> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar19.150436.2936@pacbell.net>, efournier@pacbell.net (Élodie Fournier) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > 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. -- Sun-mi Souza Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.