From jperez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Jul 26 01:04:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!jperez From: jperez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ji-woo Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul26.010457.8847@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 01:04:57 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- === Ji-woo Pérez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From tlee@earthlink.net Wed Jul 26 05:30:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!tlee From: tlee@earthlink.net (Tobias Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul26.053057.7459@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 05:30:57 GMT References: <1995Jul26.010457.8847@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul26.010457.8847@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, jperez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ji-woo Pérez) 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. -- === Tobias Lee === Dept of Electrical Engineering, EarthLink Network "They will send a copy in my place." From tsato@panix.com Thu Jul 27 21:57:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!panix!tsato From: tsato@panix.com (Tomas Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul27.215757.8123@panix.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 21:57:57 GMT References: <1995Jul26.010457.8847@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul26.010457.8847@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, jperez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ji-woo Pérez) 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. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Tomas Sato Hayes Optima 288 @ 28,800 bps "Do not worship the copy." From lkowalski@earthlink.net Sat Jul 29 08:09:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!lkowalski From: lkowalski@earthlink.net (Lisa Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul29.080957.1980@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 08:09:57 GMT References: <1995Jul26.010457.8847@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Jul26.010457.8847@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, jperez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ji-woo Pérez) 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Lisa Kowalski "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Acorn RiscPC 600 / Linux 1.2.13