From mfischer@panix.com Sat Apr 15 01:41:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!panix!mfischer From: mfischer@panix.com (Min-jun Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr15.014136.4674@panix.com> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 01:41:36 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Min-jun Fischer Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Public Access Unix of New York. ------------------------------------------------------------ From agirard@utexas.edu Sun Apr 16 01:06:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!utexas!agirard From: agirard@utexas.edu (Anja Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr16.010636.9004@utexas.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 01:06:36 GMT References: <1995Apr15.014136.4674@panix.com> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr15.014136.4674@panix.com>, mfischer@panix.com (Min-jun Fischer) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Anja Girard Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens."