From lsantos@demon.co.uk Fri Jun 23 23:38:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!demon!lsantos From: lsantos@demon.co.uk (Lucia Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun23.233807.1160@demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 23:38:07 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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? -- === Lucia Santos === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Demon Internet Services UK "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From tgonzalez@berkeley.edu Sun Jun 25 02:29:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!berkeley!tgonzalez From: tgonzalez@berkeley.edu (Tyler González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun25.022907.7482@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 02:29:07 GMT References: <1995Jun23.233807.1160@demon.co.uk> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun23.233807.1160@demon.co.uk>, lsantos@demon.co.uk (Lucia Santos) 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. -- Tyler González *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From vfournier@demon.co.uk Mon Jun 26 22:26:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!demon!vfournier From: vfournier@demon.co.uk (Valeria Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun26.222607.9630@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 22:26:07 GMT References: <1995Jun23.233807.1160@demon.co.uk> <1995Jun25.022907.7482@berkeley.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun25.022907.7482@berkeley.edu>, tgonzalez@berkeley.edu (Tyler González) writes: > 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. 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. -- Valeria Fournier "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / SunOS 4.1.4 From chughes@panix.com Wed Jun 28 04:51:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!panix!chughes From: chughes@panix.com (Callum Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun28.045107.3213@panix.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 04:51:07 GMT References: <1995Jun23.233807.1160@demon.co.uk> <1995Jun25.022907.7482@berkeley.edu> <1995Jun26.222607.9630@demon.co.uk> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun26.222607.9630@demon.co.uk>, vfournier@demon.co.uk (Valeria Fournier) writes: > 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. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Callum Hughes *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0