From sreyes@unam.mx Sun Nov 03 04:09:23 1996
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From: sreyes@unam.mx (Sergei Reyes)
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Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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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.
Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance.

How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation?

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From jlindqvist@uu.net Mon Nov 04 06:46:23 1996
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From: jlindqvist@uu.net (Ji-woo Lindqvist)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1996Nov03.040923.6818@unam.mx>, sreyes@unam.mx (Sergei Reyes) writes:
> Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis.

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From ksmirnov@mit.edu Tue Nov 05 04:57:23 1996
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From: ksmirnov@mit.edu (Kenji Smirnov)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1996Nov03.040923.6818@unam.mx>, sreyes@unam.mx (Sergei Reyes) writes:
> Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip.

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