From dtanaka@tum.de Fri Jul 14 11:11:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!tum!dtanaka From: dtanaka@tum.de (Dave Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul14.111122.9459@tum.de> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 11:11:22 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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? -- Dave Tanaka *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From agonzalez@cern.ch Fri Jul 14 18:41:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cern!agonzalez From: agonzalez@cern.ch (Aiko González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul14.184122.4742@cern.ch> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 18:41:22 GMT References: <1995Jul14.111122.9459@tum.de> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul14.111122.9459@tum.de>, dtanaka@tum.de (Dave Tanaka) 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. -- Aiko González Hayes Optima 288 @ 14,400 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."