From flee@cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 21 17:04:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cam!flee From: flee@cam.ac.uk (Fiona Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul21.170438.1931@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 17:04:38 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Fiona Lee -- University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From mwatanabe@tum.de Sun Jul 21 17:59:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!mwatanabe From: mwatanabe@tum.de (Mei Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul21.175938.8656@tum.de> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 17:59:38 GMT References: <1996Jul21.170438.1931@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1996Jul21.170438.1931@cam.ac.uk>, flee@cam.ac.uk (Fiona Lee) 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. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Mei Watanabe | mwatanabe@tum.de PGP Key fingerprint: E5D2 F801 7B01 F336 "Keep the channels open." From kkowalski@hanse.de Mon Jul 22 00:41:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!hanse!kkowalski From: kkowalski@hanse.de (Kirsty Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul22.004138.4970@hanse.de> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 00:41:38 GMT References: <1996Jul21.170438.1931@cam.ac.uk> <1996Jul21.175938.8656@tum.de> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1996Jul21.175938.8656@tum.de>, mwatanabe@tum.de (Mei Watanabe) 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Kirsty Kowalski -- Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From scampbell@pacbell.net Tue Jul 23 15:02:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!pacbell!scampbell From: scampbell@pacbell.net (Sven Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul23.150238.2332@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 15:02:38 GMT References: <1996Jul21.170438.1931@cam.ac.uk> <1996Jul21.175938.8656@tum.de> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1996Jul21.175938.8656@tum.de>, mwatanabe@tum.de (Mei Watanabe) 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. > PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Sven Campbell "They will send a copy in my place." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / TOS 4.04