From mrodriguez@mindspring.com Mon Jan 03 15:30:19 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mindspring!mrodriguez From: mrodriguez@mindspring.com (Marta Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan03.153019.6028@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 1994 15:30:19 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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? -- Marta Rodríguez "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Atari Falcon 030 / FreeBSD 2.1 From bsilva@clari.net Mon Jan 03 18:10:19 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!clari!bsilva From: bsilva@clari.net (Bill Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan03.181019.1508@clari.net> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 1994 18:10:19 GMT References: <1994Jan03.153019.6028@mindspring.com> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan03.153019.6028@mindspring.com>, mrodriguez@mindspring.com (Marta Rodríguez) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. -- Bill Silva -- ClariNet Communications Corp "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."