From tsantos@cmu.edu Sat Nov 18 18:47:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!tsantos From: tsantos@cmu.edu (Tomas Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov18.184732.2191@cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 18:47:32 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Tomas Santos US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From msato@demon.co.uk Mon Nov 20 14:41:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!demon!msato From: msato@demon.co.uk (Mateo Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov20.144132.9502@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 14:41:32 GMT References: <1995Nov18.184732.2191@cmu.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Nov18.184732.2191@cmu.edu>, tsantos@cmu.edu (Tomas Santos) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Mateo Sato Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From akuznetsov@cam.ac.uk Mon Nov 20 23:06:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cam!akuznetsov From: akuznetsov@cam.ac.uk (Astrid Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov20.230632.2026@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 23:06:32 GMT References: <1995Nov18.184732.2191@cmu.edu> <1995Nov20.144132.9502@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov20.144132.9502@demon.co.uk>, msato@demon.co.uk (Mateo Sato) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Astrid Kuznetsov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From lstewart@panix.com Wed Nov 22 04:01:32 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!panix!lstewart From: lstewart@panix.com (Lars Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov22.040132.1477@panix.com> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 04:01:32 GMT References: <1995Nov18.184732.2191@cmu.edu> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Nov18.184732.2191@cmu.edu>, tsantos@cmu.edu (Tomas Santos) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Lars Stewart Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.