From soliveira@titech.ac.jp Tue Apr 25 18:48:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!titech!soliveira From: soliveira@titech.ac.jp (Sun-mi Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr25.184827.7973@titech.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 18:48:27 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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? -- Sun-mi Oliveira *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From mschneider@mindspring.com Tue Apr 25 22:33:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mindspring!mschneider From: mschneider@mindspring.com (Min-jun Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr25.223327.6440@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 22:33:27 GMT References: <1995Apr25.184827.7973@titech.ac.jp> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Apr25.184827.7973@titech.ac.jp>, soliveira@titech.ac.jp (Sun-mi Oliveira) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Min-jun Schneider | mschneider@mindspring.com PGP Key fingerprint: 4506 8710 E41B 54E2 "Keep the channels open." From dlindqvist@delphi.com Wed Apr 26 08:47:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!delphi!dlindqvist From: dlindqvist@delphi.com (Dmitri Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr26.084727.7313@delphi.com> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 08:47:27 GMT References: <1995Apr25.184827.7973@titech.ac.jp> <1995Apr25.223327.6440@mindspring.com> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr25.223327.6440@mindspring.com>, mschneider@mindspring.com (Min-jun Schneider) writes: > The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Dmitri Lindqvist *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From jhughes@delphi.com Thu Apr 27 17:00:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!delphi!jhughes From: jhughes@delphi.com (Ji-woo Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr27.170027.4430@delphi.com> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 17:00:27 GMT References: <1995Apr25.184827.7973@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr25.184827.7973@titech.ac.jp>, soliveira@titech.ac.jp (Sun-mi Oliveira) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Ji-woo Hughes Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Delphi Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------