From msanchez@ox.ac.uk Sun Feb 06 16:48:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!msanchez From: msanchez@ox.ac.uk (Marta Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb06.164802.8944@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 1994 16:48:02 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Marta Sánchez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From slindqvist@stanford.edu Mon Feb 07 00:52:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!stanford!slindqvist From: slindqvist@stanford.edu (Sun-mi Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb07.005202.8774@stanford.edu> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 00:52:02 GMT References: <1994Feb06.164802.8944@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1994Feb06.164802.8944@ox.ac.uk>, msanchez@ox.ac.uk (Marta Sánchez) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. -- Sun-mi Lindqvist -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From lsokolov@rwth-aachen.de Mon Feb 07 10:57:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!rwth-aachen!lsokolov From: lsokolov@rwth-aachen.de (Lucia Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb07.105702.3285@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 10:57:02 GMT References: <1994Feb06.164802.8944@ox.ac.uk> <1994Feb07.005202.8774@stanford.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb07.005202.8774@stanford.edu>, slindqvist@stanford.edu (Sun-mi Lindqvist) writes: > 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Lucia Sokolov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From tsmirnov@panix.com Wed Feb 09 09:42:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!panix!tsmirnov From: tsmirnov@panix.com (Takeshi Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb09.094202.7127@panix.com> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 1994 09:42:02 GMT References: <1994Feb06.164802.8944@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb06.164802.8944@ox.ac.uk>, msanchez@ox.ac.uk (Marta Sánchez) 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. -- === Takeshi Smirnov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Public Access Unix of New York "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."