From rsanchez@kiae.su Fri Jul 28 01:02:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!kiae!rsanchez From: rsanchez@kiae.su (Renata Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul28.010227.7549@kiae.su> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 01:02:27 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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? -- Renata Sánchez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. ------------------------------------------------------------ From nsouza@pacbell.net Fri Jul 28 22:54:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!pacbell!nsouza From: nsouza@pacbell.net (Nadia Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul28.225427.9153@pacbell.net> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 22:54:27 GMT References: <1995Jul28.010227.7549@kiae.su> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jul28.010227.7549@kiae.su>, rsanchez@kiae.su (Renata Sánchez) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > 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. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Nadia Souza -- Pacific Bell Internet Services "We don't sign stars. We build them." From ivasiliev@pipeline.com Sun Jul 30 22:47:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pipeline!ivasiliev From: ivasiliev@pipeline.com (Ines Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul30.224727.6429@pipeline.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1995 22:47:27 GMT References: <1995Jul28.010227.7549@kiae.su> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul28.010227.7549@kiae.su>, rsanchez@kiae.su (Renata Sánchez) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. 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. -- Ines Vasiliev SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "Do not worship the copy."