From soliveira@titech.ac.jp Thu Feb 03 03:40:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!titech!soliveira From: soliveira@titech.ac.jp (Sven Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb03.034059.5740@titech.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 1994 03:40:59 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Sven Oliveira -- Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From mkowalski@uu.net Fri Feb 04 07:25:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uu!mkowalski From: mkowalski@uu.net (Matthias Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb04.072559.6445@uu.net> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 1994 07:25:59 GMT References: <1994Feb03.034059.5740@titech.ac.jp> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Feb03.034059.5740@titech.ac.jp>, soliveira@titech.ac.jp (Sven Oliveira) 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. 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. -- Matthias Kowalski "When every node is whole, the channel opens." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / FreeBSD 2.1 From fgirard@uu.net Sat Feb 05 09:02:59 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!fgirard From: fgirard@uu.net (Freya Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb05.090259.4118@uu.net> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 1994 09:02:59 GMT References: <1994Feb03.034059.5740@titech.ac.jp> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Feb03.034059.5740@titech.ac.jp>, soliveira@titech.ac.jp (Sven Oliveira) 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. 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. -- Freya Girard Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA. ------------------------------------------------------------