From loliveira@demon.co.uk Mon Oct 28 15:33:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!demon!loliveira From: loliveira@demon.co.uk (Lucia Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct28.153348.8213@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 15:33:48 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Lucia Oliveira Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 19,200 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From dsokolov@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Oct 29 20:57:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!u-tokyo!dsokolov From: dsokolov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Diego Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct29.205748.6690@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 20:57:48 GMT References: <1996Oct28.153348.8213@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct28.153348.8213@demon.co.uk>, loliveira@demon.co.uk (Lucia 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Diego Sokolov Hayes Optima 288 @ 28,800 bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From loliveira@cern.ch Wed Oct 30 05:56:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cern!loliveira From: loliveira@cern.ch (Lars Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct30.055648.6481@cern.ch> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 05:56:48 GMT References: <1996Oct28.153348.8213@demon.co.uk> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct28.153348.8213@demon.co.uk>, loliveira@demon.co.uk (Lucia Oliveira) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. -- Lars Oliveira "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Sun SparcStation 20 / AmigaOS 3.1 From pmartinez@unam.mx Wed Oct 30 17:28:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!unam!pmartinez From: pmartinez@unam.mx (Pavel Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct30.172848.2627@unam.mx> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:28:48 GMT References: <1996Oct28.153348.8213@demon.co.uk> <1996Oct29.205748.6690@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct29.205748.6690@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, dsokolov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Diego Sokolov) writes: > The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Pavel Martínez "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / TOS 4.04 From lsouza@kiae.su Fri Nov 01 12:12:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!lsouza From: lsouza@kiae.su (Lucia Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Nov01.121248.4527@kiae.su> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 12:12:48 GMT References: <1996Oct28.153348.8213@demon.co.uk> <1996Oct30.055648.6481@cern.ch> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Oct30.055648.6481@cern.ch>, loliveira@cern.ch (Lars Oliveira) writes: > 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Lucia Souza Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. ------------------------------------------------------------