From lmoreno@netcom.com Thu Jul 25 16:46:27 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!netcom!lmoreno From: lmoreno@netcom.com (Lisa Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul25.164627.9175@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 16:46:27 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. 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? -- Lisa Moreno -- NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From lkowalski@pacbell.net Thu Jul 25 17:44:27 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!pacbell!lkowalski From: lkowalski@pacbell.net (Lisa Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul25.174427.1997@pacbell.net> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 17:44:27 GMT References: <1996Jul25.164627.9175@netcom.com> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul25.164627.9175@netcom.com>, lmoreno@netcom.com (Lisa Moreno) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- === Lisa Kowalski === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Pacific Bell Internet Services "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From omacdonald@demon.co.uk Fri Jul 26 06:03:27 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!demon!omacdonald From: omacdonald@demon.co.uk (Olga MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul26.060327.3167@demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 06:03:27 GMT References: <1996Jul25.164627.9175@netcom.com> <1996Jul25.174427.1997@pacbell.net> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Jul25.174427.1997@pacbell.net>, lkowalski@pacbell.net (Lisa Kowalski) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Olga MacDonald Hayes Optima 288 @ ISDN 64k bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From mkuznetsov@earthlink.net Sat Jul 27 21:10:27 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!earthlink!mkuznetsov From: mkuznetsov@earthlink.net (Marisol Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul27.211027.4880@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 21:10:27 GMT References: <1996Jul25.164627.9175@netcom.com> <1996Jul25.174427.1997@pacbell.net> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul25.174427.1997@pacbell.net>, lkowalski@pacbell.net (Lisa Kowalski) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Marisol Kuznetsov | mkuznetsov@earthlink.net PGP Key fingerprint: 6A21 662E 9962 680A "Keep the channels open." From ldubois@inria.fr Sun Jul 28 05:05:27 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!ldubois From: ldubois@inria.fr (Lisa Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul28.050527.1288@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 05:05:27 GMT References: <1996Jul25.164627.9175@netcom.com> <1996Jul25.174427.1997@pacbell.net> <1996Jul27.211027.4880@earthlink.net> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul27.211027.4880@earthlink.net>, mkuznetsov@earthlink.net (Marisol Kuznetsov) writes: > The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Lisa Dubois *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 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