From oreyes@demon.co.uk Tue Jun 27 23:12:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!demon!oreyes From: oreyes@demon.co.uk (Olga Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun27.231238.2526@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 23:12:38 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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. 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? -- Olga Reyes Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From tlaurent@netcom.com Thu Jun 29 20:50:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!netcom!tlaurent From: tlaurent@netcom.com (Takeshi Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun29.205038.2989@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 20:50:38 GMT References: <1995Jun27.231238.2526@demon.co.uk> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun27.231238.2526@demon.co.uk>, oreyes@demon.co.uk (Olga Reyes) 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Takeshi Laurent -- NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "We don't sign stars. We build them." From jnilsson@inria.fr Sat Jul 01 00:16:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!jnilsson From: jnilsson@inria.fr (Julien Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul01.001638.7447@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 1995 00:16:38 GMT References: <1995Jun27.231238.2526@demon.co.uk> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun27.231238.2526@demon.co.uk>, oreyes@demon.co.uk (Olga Reyes) 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.' -- Julien Nilsson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From dmoreno@stanford.edu Sun Jul 02 19:26:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!stanford!dmoreno From: dmoreno@stanford.edu (Dave Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul02.192638.1093@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 1995 19:26:38 GMT References: <1995Jun27.231238.2526@demon.co.uk> <1995Jul01.001638.7447@inria.fr> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul01.001638.7447@inria.fr>, jnilsson@inria.fr (Julien Nilsson) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Dave Moreno | dmoreno@stanford.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 7BEA D6BD 6489 5CD8 "Keep the channels open." From ajohansson@rwth-aachen.de Tue Jul 04 11:23:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!rwth-aachen!ajohansson From: ajohansson@rwth-aachen.de (Anja Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul04.112338.2349@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 11:23:38 GMT References: <1995Jun27.231238.2526@demon.co.uk> <1995Jul01.001638.7447@inria.fr> <1995Jul02.192638.1093@stanford.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul02.192638.1093@stanford.edu>, dmoreno@stanford.edu (Dave Moreno) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Anja Johansson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of RWTH Aachen Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------