From ksantos@netcom.com Mon Nov 07 01:28:49 1994
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From: ksantos@netcom.com (Karen Santos)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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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.

Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation.

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From ptanaka@tum.de Tue Nov 08 23:11:49 1994
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994Nov07.012849.6466@netcom.com>, ksantos@netcom.com (Karen Santos) writes:
> Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model.

Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette.

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From dchoi@cmu.edu Thu Nov 10 03:21:49 1994
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994Nov07.012849.6466@netcom.com>, ksantos@netcom.com (Karen Santos) 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 CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code.

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From mwatanabe@delphi.com Thu Nov 10 08:29:49 1994
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994Nov10.032149.8622@cmu.edu>, dchoi@cmu.edu (Dong-hyun Choi) 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.

It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip.

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