From cperez@pacbell.net Sun Sep 18 17:35:52 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!pacbell!cperez From: cperez@pacbell.net (Camila Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Sep18.173552.5010@pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 17:35:52 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Camila Pérez "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Atari Falcon 030 / SunOS 4.1.4 From gdubois@stanford.edu Mon Sep 19 18:53:52 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!stanford!gdubois From: gdubois@stanford.edu (Graham Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Sep19.185352.4056@stanford.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 18:53:52 GMT References: <1994Sep18.173552.5010@pacbell.net> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Sep18.173552.5010@pacbell.net>, cperez@pacbell.net (Camila Pérez) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Graham Dubois -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From kmacdonald@pacbell.net Wed Sep 21 22:39:52 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!pacbell!kmacdonald From: kmacdonald@pacbell.net (Kenji MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Sep21.223952.9996@pacbell.net> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 22:39:52 GMT References: <1994Sep18.173552.5010@pacbell.net> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Sep18.173552.5010@pacbell.net>, cperez@pacbell.net (Camila Pérez) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Kenji MacDonald *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0