From jsilva@delphi.com Thu Jul 14 09:56:49 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!delphi!jsilva From: jsilva@delphi.com (Julien Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul14.095649.8615@delphi.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 09:56:49 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 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? -- Julien Silva -- Delphi Internet Services "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From mrodriguez@utexas.edu Fri Jul 15 20:12:49 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!utexas!mrodriguez From: mrodriguez@utexas.edu (Morag Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul15.201249.5226@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 20:12:49 GMT References: <1994Jul14.095649.8615@delphi.com> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul14.095649.8615@delphi.com>, jsilva@delphi.com (Julien Silva) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Morag Rodríguez | mrodriguez@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: ABCD 1378 EC85 5A0A "Keep the channels open." From tsanchez@delphi.com Sat Jul 16 11:19:49 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!delphi!tsanchez From: tsanchez@delphi.com (Tobias Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul16.111949.2588@delphi.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 1994 11:19:49 GMT References: <1994Jul14.095649.8615@delphi.com> <1994Jul15.201249.5226@utexas.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1994Jul15.201249.5226@utexas.edu>, mrodriguez@utexas.edu (Morag Rodríguez) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Tobias Sánchez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From lhernandez@cam.ac.uk Sun Jul 17 06:35:49 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cam!lhernandez From: lhernandez@cam.ac.uk (Lisa Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul17.063549.8733@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 1994 06:35:49 GMT References: <1994Jul14.095649.8615@delphi.com> <1994Jul15.201249.5226@utexas.edu> <1994Jul16.111949.2588@delphi.com> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul16.111949.2588@delphi.com>, tsanchez@delphi.com (Tobias Sánchez) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Lisa Hernández | lhernandez@cam.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 113F 74A0 4EB6 70DC "Keep the channels open." From amuller@tum.de Mon Jul 18 19:15:49 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!tum!amuller From: amuller@tum.de (Andrei Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul18.191549.9824@tum.de> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 19:15:49 GMT References: <1994Jul14.095649.8615@delphi.com> <1994Jul15.201249.5226@utexas.edu> <1994Jul16.111949.2588@delphi.com> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Jul16.111949.2588@delphi.com>, tsanchez@delphi.com (Tobias Sánchez) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Andrei Müller SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."