From lchoi@pipeline.com Sat Jan 21 12:38:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pipeline!lchoi From: lchoi@pipeline.com (Lisa Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan21.123855.2640@pipeline.com> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 12:38:55 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Lisa Choi Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "Hold for relay." From rreyes@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Jan 21 16:32:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!u-tokyo!rreyes From: rreyes@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Renata Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan21.163255.8283@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 16:32:55 GMT References: <1995Jan21.123855.2640@pipeline.com> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jan21.123855.2640@pipeline.com>, lchoi@pipeline.com (Lisa 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- === Renata Reyes === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From msokolov@illinois.edu Mon Jan 23 09:42:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!illinois!msokolov From: msokolov@illinois.edu (Mateo Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan23.094255.1445@illinois.edu> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 09:42:55 GMT References: <1995Jan21.123855.2640@pipeline.com> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan21.123855.2640@pipeline.com>, lchoi@pipeline.com (Lisa 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. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Mateo Sokolov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0