From efischer@titech.ac.jp Thu May 18 13:56:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!titech!efischer From: efischer@titech.ac.jp (Emi Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May18.135642.5484@titech.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 13:56:42 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Emi Fischer "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / AmigaOS 3.1 From plindqvist@hanse.de Sat May 20 13:47:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!hanse!plindqvist From: plindqvist@hanse.de (Pavel Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May20.134742.6145@hanse.de> Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 13:47:42 GMT References: <1995May18.135642.5484@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995May18.135642.5484@titech.ac.jp>, efischer@titech.ac.jp (Emi Fischer) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Pavel Lindqvist *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From slaurent@inria.fr Sun May 21 16:44:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!inria!slaurent From: slaurent@inria.fr (Sun-mi Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May21.164442.6962@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 16:44:42 GMT References: <1995May18.135642.5484@titech.ac.jp> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995May18.135642.5484@titech.ac.jp>, efischer@titech.ac.jp (Emi Fischer) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Sun-mi Laurent Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "Row 14. No joke."