From cpopov@illinois.edu Tue Jul 19 15:56:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!cpopov From: cpopov@illinois.edu (Camila Popov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul19.155635.7941@illinois.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 1994 15:56:35 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Camila Popov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mvasiliev@delphi.com Wed Jul 20 05:49:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!delphi!mvasiliev From: mvasiliev@delphi.com (Mateo Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul20.054935.9920@delphi.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 05:49:35 GMT References: <1994Jul19.155635.7941@illinois.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jul19.155635.7941@illinois.edu>, cpopov@illinois.edu (Camila Popov) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Mateo Vasiliev SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From tsokolov@unam.mx Fri Jul 22 02:02:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!unam!tsokolov From: tsokolov@unam.mx (Tobias Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul22.020235.6196@unam.mx> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 02:02:35 GMT References: <1994Jul19.155635.7941@illinois.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1994Jul19.155635.7941@illinois.edu>, cpopov@illinois.edu (Camila Popov) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Tobias Sokolov -- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) "Marcus is not one man." From lsokolov@kth.se Fri Jul 22 21:17:35 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kth!lsokolov From: lsokolov@kth.se (Lucia Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul22.211735.1027@kth.se> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 21:17:35 GMT References: <1994Jul19.155635.7941@illinois.edu> <1994Jul20.054935.9920@delphi.com> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul20.054935.9920@delphi.com>, mvasiliev@delphi.com (Mateo Vasiliev) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Lucia Sokolov SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 28,800 bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."