From jfournier@earthlink.net Tue Nov 07 06:22:53 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!jfournier From: jfournier@earthlink.net (Joachim Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov07.062253.1040@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 06:22:53 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net 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. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Joachim Fournier | jfournier@earthlink.net PGP Key fingerprint: 6523 CD8C D57B F0B3 "Keep the channels open." From smartinez@ox.ac.uk Tue Nov 07 22:20:53 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!ox!smartinez From: smartinez@ox.ac.uk (Sven Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov07.222053.6604@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 22:20:53 GMT References: <1995Nov07.062253.1040@earthlink.net> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Nov07.062253.1040@earthlink.net>, jfournier@earthlink.net (Joachim Fournier) 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.' Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Sven Martínez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0 From nandersson@rwth-aachen.de Wed Nov 08 03:40:53 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!rwth-aachen!nandersson From: nandersson@rwth-aachen.de (Nadine Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov08.034053.7361@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 03:40:53 GMT References: <1995Nov07.062253.1040@earthlink.net> <1995Nov07.222053.6604@ox.ac.uk> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Nov07.222053.6604@ox.ac.uk>, smartinez@ox.ac.uk (Sven Martínez) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' > Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Nadine Andersson Zyxel U-1496E @ 33,600 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them."