From jsmirnov@hanse.de Fri Jun 02 11:30:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!hanse!jsmirnov From: jsmirnov@hanse.de (Joachim Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun02.113013.3363@hanse.de> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 1995 11:30:13 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Joachim Smirnov Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "Marcus is not one man." From oeriksson@uu.net Sat Jun 03 18:56:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uu!oeriksson From: oeriksson@uu.net (Olga Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun03.185613.5807@uu.net> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 1995 18:56:13 GMT References: <1995Jun02.113013.3363@hanse.de> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Jun02.113013.3363@hanse.de>, jsmirnov@hanse.de (Joachim Smirnov) 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. 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. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Olga Eriksson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From dmuller@berkeley.edu Sun Jun 04 04:17:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!berkeley!dmuller From: dmuller@berkeley.edu (Dong-hyun Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun04.041713.9927@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1995 04:17:13 GMT References: <1995Jun02.113013.3363@hanse.de> <1995Jun03.185613.5807@uu.net> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jun03.185613.5807@uu.net>, oeriksson@uu.net (Olga Eriksson) 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. > Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Dong-hyun Müller SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "Marcus is not one man."