From rpopov@panix.com Sat Mar 25 06:53:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!panix!rpopov From: rpopov@panix.com (Rodrigo Popov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar25.065357.6015@panix.com> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 06:53:57 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. 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. -- Rodrigo Popov | rpopov@panix.com PGP Key fingerprint: 2119 828F D3C7 EAEF "Keep the channels open." From anakamura@unam.mx Sat Mar 25 15:22:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!unam!anakamura From: anakamura@unam.mx (Anton Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar25.152257.6867@unam.mx> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 15:22:57 GMT References: <1995Mar25.065357.6015@panix.com> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar25.065357.6015@panix.com>, rpopov@panix.com (Rodrigo Popov) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Anton Nakamura Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 28,800 bps "Row 14. No joke."