From kmacdonald@inria.fr Sat Apr 08 02:34:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!inria!kmacdonald From: kmacdonald@inria.fr (Katrin MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr08.023424.6445@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 1995 02:34:24 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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? -- Katrin MacDonald "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From tfournier@uu.net Sun Apr 09 18:22:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uu!tfournier From: tfournier@uu.net (Tyler Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr09.182224.2328@uu.net> Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1995 18:22:24 GMT References: <1995Apr08.023424.6445@inria.fr> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr08.023424.6445@inria.fr>, kmacdonald@inria.fr (Katrin MacDonald) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- === Tyler Fournier === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "Do not worship the copy." From okowalski@pipeline.com Mon Apr 10 17:46:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!pipeline!okowalski From: okowalski@pipeline.com (Olga Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr10.174624.6560@pipeline.com> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 1995 17:46:24 GMT References: <1995Apr08.023424.6445@inria.fr> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr08.023424.6445@inria.fr>, kmacdonald@inria.fr (Katrin MacDonald) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- === Olga Kowalski === Dept of Electrical Engineering, The Pipeline Internet Network "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From nlee@utexas.edu Tue Apr 11 03:14:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!utexas!nlee From: nlee@utexas.edu (Nadia Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr11.031424.1928@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 03:14:24 GMT References: <1995Apr08.023424.6445@inria.fr> <1995Apr10.174624.6560@pipeline.com> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr10.174624.6560@pipeline.com>, okowalski@pipeline.com (Olga Kowalski) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Nadia Lee | nlee@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: C54B 048E 28D5 2AD7 "Keep the channels open."