From hkarlsson@utexas.edu Mon Oct 16 22:56:54 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!utexas!hkarlsson From: hkarlsson@utexas.edu (Hugo Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct16.225654.7082@utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 22:56:54 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. 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? -- Hugo Karlsson Zyxel U-1496E @ 14,400 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From bokonkwo@rwth-aachen.de Tue Oct 17 10:04:54 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!rwth-aachen!bokonkwo From: bokonkwo@rwth-aachen.de (Bill Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct17.100454.5576@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:04:54 GMT References: <1995Oct16.225654.7082@utexas.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct16.225654.7082@utexas.edu>, hkarlsson@utexas.edu (Hugo Karlsson) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- === Bill Okonkwo === Dept of Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen Informatik "They will send a copy in my place."