From kchoi@inria.fr Fri Aug 02 18:54:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!kchoi From: kchoi@inria.fr (Katrin Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug02.185459.3706@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 18:54:59 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Katrin Choi "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / System 7.5.1 From bperez@panix.com Sun Aug 04 15:09:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!panix!bperez From: bperez@panix.com (Brian Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug04.150959.9246@panix.com> Date: Sun, 04 Aug 1996 15:09:59 GMT References: <1996Aug02.185459.3706@inria.fr> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Aug02.185459.3706@inria.fr>, kchoi@inria.fr (Katrin Choi) 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Brian Pérez "Marcus is not one man." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / SunOS 4.1.4 From rmuller@earthlink.net Mon Aug 05 15:55:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!earthlink!rmuller From: rmuller@earthlink.net (Rodrigo Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug05.155559.7246@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 05 Aug 1996 15:55:59 GMT References: <1996Aug02.185459.3706@inria.fr> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Aug02.185459.3706@inria.fr>, kchoi@inria.fr (Katrin Choi) 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. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Rodrigo Müller "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / AmigaOS 3.1 From fbrennan@uu.net Wed Aug 07 07:27:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uu!fbrennan From: fbrennan@uu.net (Fiona Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug07.072759.6837@uu.net> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 07:27:59 GMT References: <1996Aug02.185459.3706@inria.fr> <1996Aug05.155559.7246@earthlink.net> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1996Aug05.155559.7246@earthlink.net>, rmuller@earthlink.net (Rodrigo Müller) 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 breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Fiona Brennan -- UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "They will send a copy in my place."