From orodriguez@panix.com Sun Feb 06 21:42:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!panix!orodriguez From: orodriguez@panix.com (Olga Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb06.214202.5718@panix.com> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 1994 21:42:02 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. 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? -- Olga Rodríguez -- Public Access Unix of New York "Row 14. No joke." From mmoreno@titech.ac.jp Mon Feb 07 09:43:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!titech!mmoreno From: mmoreno@titech.ac.jp (Marisol Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb07.094302.7385@titech.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 09:43:02 GMT References: <1994Feb06.214202.5718@panix.com> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Feb06.214202.5718@panix.com>, orodriguez@panix.com (Olga Rodríguez) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Marisol Moreno | mmoreno@titech.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: 050C 9902 4D70 FF63 "Keep the channels open." From jnilsson@cmu.edu Mon Feb 07 10:39:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cmu!jnilsson From: jnilsson@cmu.edu (Jens Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb07.103902.1808@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 10:39:02 GMT References: <1994Feb06.214202.5718@panix.com> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb06.214202.5718@panix.com>, orodriguez@panix.com (Olga Rodríguez) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. -- === Jens Nilsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From drobertson@illinois.edu Wed Feb 09 03:19:02 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!illinois!drobertson From: drobertson@illinois.edu (Dong-hyun Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb09.031902.7701@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 1994 03:19:02 GMT References: <1994Feb06.214202.5718@panix.com> <1994Feb07.094302.7385@titech.ac.jp> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb07.094302.7385@titech.ac.jp>, mmoreno@titech.ac.jp (Marisol Moreno) writes: > If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Dong-hyun Robertson "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Atari TT030 / AmigaOS 3.1