From fchoi@berkeley.edu Sat Jun 10 23:19:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!berkeley!fchoi From: fchoi@berkeley.edu (Fiona Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun10.231940.6787@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 23:19:40 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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? -- Fiona Choi "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From dnakamura@berkeley.edu Sun Jun 11 16:13:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!berkeley!dnakamura From: dnakamura@berkeley.edu (Dmitri Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun11.161340.7453@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 16:13:40 GMT References: <1995Jun10.231940.6787@berkeley.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun10.231940.6787@berkeley.edu>, fchoi@berkeley.edu (Fiona Choi) writes: > 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. 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. -- Dmitri Nakamura | dnakamura@berkeley.edu PGP Key fingerprint: D62E E421 C567 C358 "Keep the channels open." From mlarsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Jun 13 17:35:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!mlarsson From: mlarsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Marta Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun13.173540.2149@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 17:35:40 GMT References: <1995Jun10.231940.6787@berkeley.edu> <1995Jun11.161340.7453@berkeley.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun11.161340.7453@berkeley.edu>, dnakamura@berkeley.edu (Dmitri Nakamura) writes: > 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. 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. -- Marta Larsson "Row 14. No joke." Macintosh IIfx / AmigaOS 3.1 From mgarcia@ox.ac.uk Tue Jun 13 22:48:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!ox!mgarcia From: mgarcia@ox.ac.uk (Marta García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun13.224840.8912@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 22:48:40 GMT References: <1995Jun10.231940.6787@berkeley.edu> <1995Jun11.161340.7453@berkeley.edu> <1995Jun13.173540.2149@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun13.173540.2149@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, mlarsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Marta Larsson) writes: > 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. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Marta García "Do not worship the copy." Macintosh IIfx / TOS 4.04