From llee@mit.edu Thu Feb 02 17:00:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mit!llee From: llee@mit.edu (Lars Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb02.170006.7217@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 17:00:06 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu 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. 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? -- Lars Lee US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "Do not worship the copy." From tfournier@kiae.su Fri Feb 03 04:36:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kiae!tfournier From: tfournier@kiae.su (Thiago Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb03.043606.8746@kiae.su> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1995 04:36:06 GMT References: <1995Feb02.170006.7217@mit.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb02.170006.7217@mit.edu>, llee@mit.edu (Lars Lee) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Thiago Fournier US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."