From olee@purdue.edu Wed Apr 19 11:37:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!purdue!olee From: olee@purdue.edu (Olga Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr19.113751.5919@purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 11:37:51 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- === Olga Lee === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From klee@rwth-aachen.de Fri Apr 21 06:31:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!rwth-aachen!klee From: klee@rwth-aachen.de (Kenji Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr21.063151.8387@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 06:31:51 GMT References: <1995Apr19.113751.5919@purdue.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr19.113751.5919@purdue.edu>, olee@purdue.edu (Olga Lee) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Kenji Lee *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From rschneider@delphi.com Fri Apr 21 18:43:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!delphi!rschneider From: rschneider@delphi.com (Raj Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr21.184351.6968@delphi.com> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 18:43:51 GMT References: <1995Apr19.113751.5919@purdue.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr19.113751.5919@purdue.edu>, olee@purdue.edu (Olga Lee) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Raj Schneider Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Delphi Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------ From jvasiliev@uni-hamburg.de Sun Apr 23 03:58:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uni-hamburg!jvasiliev From: jvasiliev@uni-hamburg.de (Jens Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr23.035851.7816@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 03:58:51 GMT References: <1995Apr19.113751.5919@purdue.edu> <1995Apr21.184351.6968@delphi.com> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr21.184351.6968@delphi.com>, rschneider@delphi.com (Raj Schneider) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Jens Vasiliev "Marcus is not one man." Amiga 3000T / FreeBSD 2.1