From mbrennan@mit.edu Wed Feb 09 18:18:07 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!mit!mbrennan From: mbrennan@mit.edu (Mei Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb09.181807.6013@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 1994 18:18:07 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- === Mei Brennan === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "We don't sign stars. We build them." From ycampbell@purdue.edu Thu Feb 10 06:26:07 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!purdue!ycampbell From: ycampbell@purdue.edu (Yuki Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb10.062607.9639@purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 06:26:07 GMT References: <1994Feb09.181807.6013@mit.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Feb09.181807.6013@mit.edu>, mbrennan@mit.edu (Mei Brennan) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Yuki Campbell Hayes Optima 288 @ 28,800 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From hjohansson@mit.edu Thu Feb 10 20:03:07 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mit!hjohansson From: hjohansson@mit.edu (Hugo Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb10.200307.6104@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 20:03:07 GMT References: <1994Feb09.181807.6013@mit.edu> <1994Feb10.062607.9639@purdue.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Feb10.062607.9639@purdue.edu>, ycampbell@purdue.edu (Yuki Campbell) writes: > The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Hugo Johansson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0