From egirard@illinois.edu Tue Feb 28 11:17:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!egirard From: egirard@illinois.edu (Elaine Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb28.111724.8839@illinois.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 11:17:24 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Elaine Girard Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mmoreno@pacbell.net Wed Mar 01 10:47:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pacbell!mmoreno From: mmoreno@pacbell.net (Marisol Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar01.104724.8078@pacbell.net> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 10:47:24 GMT References: <1995Feb28.111724.8839@illinois.edu> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb28.111724.8839@illinois.edu>, egirard@illinois.edu (Elaine Girard) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. 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. -- Marisol Moreno "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / FreeBSD 2.1