From enovak@cmu.edu Sun Aug 04 08:18:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cmu!enovak From: enovak@cmu.edu (Elaine Novak) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug04.081852.9692@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 04 Aug 1996 08:18:52 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. 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? -- Elaine Novak "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / TOS 4.04 From mkang@pacbell.net Mon Aug 05 14:09:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!pacbell!mkang From: mkang@pacbell.net (Marisol Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug05.140952.2555@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 14:09:52 GMT References: <1996Aug04.081852.9692@cmu.edu> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1996Aug04.081852.9692@cmu.edu>, enovak@cmu.edu (Elaine Novak) writes: > 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. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Marisol Kang *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From loliveira@utexas.edu Wed Aug 07 17:51:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!utexas!loliveira From: loliveira@utexas.edu (Lucia Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug07.175152.9514@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 17:51:52 GMT References: <1996Aug04.081852.9692@cmu.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Aug04.081852.9692@cmu.edu>, enovak@cmu.edu (Elaine Novak) writes: > 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Lucia Oliveira -- University of Texas at Austin "Hold for relay."