From kjohansson@utexas.edu Mon Apr 03 19:38:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!utexas!kjohansson From: kjohansson@utexas.edu (Katrin Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr03.193800.9355@utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 19:38:00 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Katrin Johansson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "Do not worship the copy." From loliveira@inria.fr Tue Apr 04 14:49:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!loliveira From: loliveira@inria.fr (Lucia Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr04.144900.7369@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 14:49:00 GMT References: <1995Apr03.193800.9355@utexas.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Apr03.193800.9355@utexas.edu>, kjohansson@utexas.edu (Katrin Johansson) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. 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. -- Lucia Oliveira *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From kgarcia@inria.fr Wed Apr 05 19:04:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!kgarcia From: kgarcia@inria.fr (Katrin García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr05.190400.9482@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1995 19:04:00 GMT References: <1995Apr03.193800.9355@utexas.edu> <1995Apr04.144900.7369@inria.fr> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Apr04.144900.7369@inria.fr>, loliveira@inria.fr (Lucia Oliveira) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. 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. -- Katrin García *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From tgirard@stanford.edu Thu Apr 06 04:23:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!stanford!tgirard From: tgirard@stanford.edu (Thiago Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr06.042300.8751@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 04:23:00 GMT References: <1995Apr03.193800.9355@utexas.edu> <1995Apr04.144900.7369@inria.fr> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr04.144900.7369@inria.fr>, loliveira@inria.fr (Lucia Oliveira) writes: > 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. 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. -- Thiago Girard "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Amiga 3000T / FreeBSD 2.1 From dreyes@hanse.de Sat Apr 08 07:45:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!hanse!dreyes From: dreyes@hanse.de (Diego Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr08.074500.7453@hanse.de> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 07:45:00 GMT References: <1995Apr03.193800.9355@utexas.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr03.193800.9355@utexas.edu>, kjohansson@utexas.edu (Katrin Johansson) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. -- === Diego Reyes === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "We don't sign stars. We build them."