From alopez@tum.de Sun Jul 07 20:44:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!alopez From: alopez@tum.de (Anton López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul07.204454.4414@tum.de> Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 20:44:54 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Anton López -- Technische Universität München "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From edubois@hanse.de Tue Jul 09 23:40:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!hanse!edubois From: edubois@hanse.de (Élodie Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul09.234054.1511@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 23:40:54 GMT References: <1996Jul07.204454.4414@tum.de> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1996Jul07.204454.4414@tum.de>, alopez@tum.de (Anton López) 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Élodie Dubois SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From mmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de Thu Jul 11 21:28:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!rwth-aachen!mmacdonald From: mmacdonald@rwth-aachen.de (Mike MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul11.212854.6902@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 21:28:54 GMT References: <1996Jul07.204454.4414@tum.de> <1996Jul09.234054.1511@hanse.de> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul09.234054.1511@hanse.de>, edubois@hanse.de (Élodie Dubois) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. > Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Mike MacDonald *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0