From tsmirnov@delphi.com Sun Jun 16 15:04:05 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!delphi!tsmirnov From: tsmirnov@delphi.com (Tomas Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun16.150405.5626@delphi.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 15:04:05 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Tomas Smirnov "We don't sign stars. We build them." Decstation 5000/200 / Linux 1.2.13 From hgirard@ox.ac.uk Mon Jun 17 00:34:05 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!hgirard From: hgirard@ox.ac.uk (Heather Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun17.003405.9495@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 00:34:05 GMT References: <1996Jun16.150405.5626@delphi.com> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Jun16.150405.5626@delphi.com>, tsmirnov@delphi.com (Tomas Smirnov) 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- === Heather Girard === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From sbrennan@delphi.com Tue Jun 18 04:46:05 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!delphi!sbrennan From: sbrennan@delphi.com (Steve Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun18.044605.8038@delphi.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 04:46:05 GMT References: <1996Jun16.150405.5626@delphi.com> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jun16.150405.5626@delphi.com>, tsmirnov@delphi.com (Tomas Smirnov) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Steve Brennan Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.