From scampbell@mindspring.com Sun Dec 08 04:59:51 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mindspring!scampbell From: scampbell@mindspring.com (Sergei Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Dec08.045951.5733@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 04:59:51 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Sergei Campbell SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "Marcus is not one man." From sjohansson@hanse.de Tue Dec 10 06:04:51 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!hanse!sjohansson From: sjohansson@hanse.de (Seo-yeon Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Dec10.060451.2572@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 06:04:51 GMT References: <1996Dec08.045951.5733@mindspring.com> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1996Dec08.045951.5733@mindspring.com>, scampbell@mindspring.com (Sergei Campbell) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- === Seo-yeon Johansson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "Do not worship the copy." From meriksson@inria.fr Wed Dec 11 04:08:51 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!inria!meriksson From: meriksson@inria.fr (Min-jun Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Dec11.040851.3935@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 04:08:51 GMT References: <1996Dec08.045951.5733@mindspring.com> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Dec08.045951.5733@mindspring.com>, scampbell@mindspring.com (Sergei Campbell) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Min-jun Eriksson -- INRIA Rocquencourt "Row 14. No joke."