From lito@mindspring.com Sat May 11 15:01:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mindspring!lito From: lito@mindspring.com (Lars Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May11.150130.3251@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 15:01:30 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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? -- Lars Ito Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mkarlsson@berkeley.edu Sat May 11 17:18:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!berkeley!mkarlsson From: mkarlsson@berkeley.edu (Marta Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May11.171830.6882@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 17:18:30 GMT References: <1996May11.150130.3251@mindspring.com> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996May11.150130.3251@mindspring.com>, lito@mindspring.com (Lars Ito) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Marta Karlsson "They will send a copy in my place." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / SunOS 4.1.4 From dgonzalez@rwth-aachen.de Sun May 12 17:16:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!rwth-aachen!dgonzalez From: dgonzalez@rwth-aachen.de (Dong-hyun González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May12.171630.1373@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 17:16:30 GMT References: <1996May11.150130.3251@mindspring.com> <1996May11.171830.6882@berkeley.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1996May11.171830.6882@berkeley.edu>, mkarlsson@berkeley.edu (Marta Karlsson) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Dong-hyun González Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of RWTH Aachen Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------