From rmoreno@berkeley.edu Tue Sep 20 16:49:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!berkeley!rmoreno From: rmoreno@berkeley.edu (Renata Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Sep20.164932.3350@berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 16:49:32 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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? -- Renata Moreno US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "Hold for relay." From gsantos@earthlink.net Wed Sep 21 15:12:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!gsantos From: gsantos@earthlink.net (Graham Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Sep21.151232.2709@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 15:12:32 GMT References: <1994Sep20.164932.3350@berkeley.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Sep20.164932.3350@berkeley.edu>, rmoreno@berkeley.edu (Renata Moreno) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Graham Santos Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 33,600 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology."