From spopov@cmu.edu Sat Feb 18 10:43:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cmu!spopov From: spopov@cmu.edu (Sun-mi Popov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb18.104358.7852@cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 10:43:58 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. 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? -- === Sun-mi Popov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From esilva@tum.de Sat Feb 18 12:02:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!tum!esilva From: esilva@tum.de (Elaine Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb18.120258.8473@tum.de> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 12:02:58 GMT References: <1995Feb18.104358.7852@cmu.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb18.104358.7852@cmu.edu>, spopov@cmu.edu (Sun-mi Popov) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Elaine Silva *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0