From breyes@cmu.edu Tue Jun 13 07:18:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cmu!breyes From: breyes@cmu.edu (Brian Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun13.071836.7650@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 07:18:36 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Brian Reyes -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From csanchez@uu.net Wed Jun 14 05:47:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!csanchez From: csanchez@uu.net (Callum Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun14.054736.5828@uu.net> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 05:47:36 GMT References: <1995Jun13.071836.7650@cmu.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jun13.071836.7650@cmu.edu>, breyes@cmu.edu (Brian Reyes) 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 CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Callum Sánchez -- UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From tnilsson@panix.com Thu Jun 15 04:53:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!panix!tnilsson From: tnilsson@panix.com (Thiago Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun15.045336.7014@panix.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 04:53:36 GMT References: <1995Jun13.071836.7650@cmu.edu> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun13.071836.7650@cmu.edu>, breyes@cmu.edu (Brian Reyes) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Thiago Nilsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From rrodriguez@utexas.edu Sat Jun 17 03:07:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!utexas!rrodriguez From: rrodriguez@utexas.edu (Renata Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun17.030736.2015@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 03:07:36 GMT References: <1995Jun13.071836.7650@cmu.edu> <1995Jun14.054736.5828@uu.net> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun14.054736.5828@uu.net>, csanchez@uu.net (Callum Sánchez) writes: > The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Renata Rodríguez US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From iweber@cam.ac.uk Sun Jun 18 23:49:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cam!iweber From: iweber@cam.ac.uk (Ines Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun18.234936.8247@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 23:49:36 GMT References: <1995Jun13.071836.7650@cmu.edu> <1995Jun14.054736.5828@uu.net> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun14.054736.5828@uu.net>, csanchez@uu.net (Callum Sánchez) writes: > The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. > Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- === Ines Weber === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory "When every node is whole, the channel opens."