From mtakahashi@demon.co.uk Tue Mar 08 04:49:19 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!mtakahashi From: mtakahashi@demon.co.uk (Min-jun Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Mar08.044919.6694@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 1994 04:49:19 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Min-jun Takahashi *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From bfischer@cern.ch Wed Mar 09 16:29:19 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cern!bfischer From: bfischer@cern.ch (Bruno Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Mar09.162919.9172@cern.ch> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 1994 16:29:19 GMT References: <1994Mar08.044919.6694@demon.co.uk> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1994Mar08.044919.6694@demon.co.uk>, mtakahashi@demon.co.uk (Min-jun Takahashi) writes: > 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. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Bruno Fischer | bfischer@cern.ch PGP Key fingerprint: 096A FC5A E4C5 95AE "Keep the channels open."