From mpark@hanse.de Mon Dec 04 02:42:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!hanse!mpark From: mpark@hanse.de (Mikhail Park) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec04.024218.6382@hanse.de> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 02:42:18 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. -- Mikhail Park Hayes Optima 288 @ 19,200 bps "Marcus is not one man." From jperez@cam.ac.uk Mon Dec 04 18:12:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cam!jperez From: jperez@cam.ac.uk (Joachim Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec04.181218.4303@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 18:12:18 GMT References: <1995Dec04.024218.6382@hanse.de> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Dec04.024218.6382@hanse.de>, mpark@hanse.de (Mikhail Park) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Joachim Pérez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.