From areyes@kiae.su Sat Jan 20 23:47:29 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kiae!areyes From: areyes@kiae.su (Andrei Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan20.234729.4561@kiae.su> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 23:47:29 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Andrei Reyes US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From jkuznetsov@berkeley.edu Tue Jan 23 01:46:29 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!berkeley!jkuznetsov From: jkuznetsov@berkeley.edu (Jens Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan23.014629.7788@berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 01:46:29 GMT References: <1996Jan20.234729.4561@kiae.su> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan20.234729.4561@kiae.su>, areyes@kiae.su (Andrei Reyes) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Jens Kuznetsov US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "Hold for relay."