From jmuller@mit.edu Sat Dec 24 19:55:40 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!mit!jmuller From: jmuller@mit.edu (Julien Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec24.195540.5729@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 19:55:40 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Julien Müller *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From lpetrov@earthlink.net Mon Dec 26 10:36:40 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!earthlink!lpetrov From: lpetrov@earthlink.net (Liam Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec26.103640.4125@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 1994 10:36:40 GMT References: <1994Dec24.195540.5729@mit.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Dec24.195540.5729@mit.edu>, jmuller@mit.edu (Julien Müller) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- === Liam Petrov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, EarthLink Network "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From yhughes@cern.ch Tue Dec 27 20:03:40 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cern!yhughes From: yhughes@cern.ch (Yuki Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec27.200340.2615@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 20:03:40 GMT References: <1994Dec24.195540.5729@mit.edu> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Dec24.195540.5729@mit.edu>, jmuller@mit.edu (Julien Müller) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. -- === Yuki Hughes === Dept of Electrical Engineering, European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From jmoreno@rwth-aachen.de Wed Dec 28 19:04:40 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!rwth-aachen!jmoreno From: jmoreno@rwth-aachen.de (Ji-woo Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec28.190440.9399@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 19:04:40 GMT References: <1994Dec24.195540.5729@mit.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Dec24.195540.5729@mit.edu>, jmuller@mit.edu (Julien Müller) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. 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. -- Ji-woo Moreno "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Atari Falcon 030 / AmigaOS 3.1 From hschneider@earthlink.net Thu Dec 29 14:43:40 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!earthlink!hschneider From: hschneider@earthlink.net (Heather Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec29.144340.1815@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 14:43:40 GMT References: <1994Dec24.195540.5729@mit.edu> <1994Dec28.190440.9399@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Dec28.190440.9399@rwth-aachen.de>, jmoreno@rwth-aachen.de (Ji-woo Moreno) writes: > 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Heather Schneider | hschneider@earthlink.net PGP Key fingerprint: DB07 F01A 604E D309 "Keep the channels open."