From rdubois@kiae.su Mon Feb 13 07:43:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kiae!rdubois From: rdubois@kiae.su (Rodrigo Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb13.074301.2956@kiae.su> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 07:43:01 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? -- Rodrigo Dubois US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From vcampbell@hanse.de Mon Feb 13 10:31:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!hanse!vcampbell From: vcampbell@hanse.de (Valeria Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb13.103101.1113@hanse.de> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 10:31:01 GMT References: <1995Feb13.074301.2956@kiae.su> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb13.074301.2956@kiae.su>, rdubois@kiae.su (Rodrigo Dubois) 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. -- Valeria Campbell Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From lschneider@clari.net Tue Feb 14 23:42:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!clari!lschneider From: lschneider@clari.net (Liam Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb14.234201.8046@clari.net> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 23:42:01 GMT References: <1995Feb13.074301.2956@kiae.su> <1995Feb13.103101.1113@hanse.de> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Feb13.103101.1113@hanse.de>, vcampbell@hanse.de (Valeria Campbell) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Liam Schneider Hayes Optima 288 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Marcus is not one man." From asato@titech.ac.jp Wed Feb 15 05:28:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!titech!asato From: asato@titech.ac.jp (Anton Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb15.052801.2378@titech.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 05:28:01 GMT References: <1995Feb13.074301.2956@kiae.su> <1995Feb13.103101.1113@hanse.de> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb13.103101.1113@hanse.de>, vcampbell@hanse.de (Valeria Campbell) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Anton Sato | asato@titech.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: EDD8 7587 F889 B788 "Keep the channels open."