From ngonzalez@inria.fr Sun Oct 23 12:50:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!inria!ngonzalez From: ngonzalez@inria.fr (Natalia González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct23.125010.5010@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 12:50:10 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. 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? -- Natalia González "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Atari Falcon 030 / SunOS 4.1.4 From fsantos@mindspring.com Mon Oct 24 04:47:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mindspring!fsantos From: fsantos@mindspring.com (Fiona Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct24.044710.6139@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 04:47:10 GMT References: <1994Oct23.125010.5010@inria.fr> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct23.125010.5010@inria.fr>, ngonzalez@inria.fr (Natalia González) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- === Fiona Santos === Dept of Electrical Engineering, MindSpring Enterprises "We don't sign stars. We build them." From jsanchez@delphi.com Tue Oct 25 00:19:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!delphi!jsanchez From: jsanchez@delphi.com (Jens Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct25.001910.3103@delphi.com> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 00:19:10 GMT References: <1994Oct23.125010.5010@inria.fr> <1994Oct24.044710.6139@mindspring.com> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Oct24.044710.6139@mindspring.com>, fsantos@mindspring.com (Fiona Santos) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- === Jens Sánchez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Delphi Internet Services "When every node is whole, the channel opens."