From kkim@hanse.de Sun May 12 14:58:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!hanse!kkim From: kkim@hanse.de (Kirsty Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May12.145804.8074@hanse.de> Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 14:58:04 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Kirsty Kim *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From nsantos@titech.ac.jp Mon May 13 00:28:04 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!titech!nsantos From: nsantos@titech.ac.jp (Natalia Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May13.002804.7942@titech.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 00:28:04 GMT References: <1996May12.145804.8074@hanse.de> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996May12.145804.8074@hanse.de>, kkim@hanse.de (Kirsty Kim) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > 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.' -- === Natalia Santos === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."