From hhernandez@clari.net Sat Aug 17 22:14:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!clari!hhernandez From: hhernandez@clari.net (Heather Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug17.221420.6231@clari.net> Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 22:14:20 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- === Heather Hernández === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "Marcus is not one man." From ohughes@berkeley.edu Mon Aug 19 15:07:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!berkeley!ohughes From: ohughes@berkeley.edu (Olga Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug19.150720.3098@berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 15:07:20 GMT References: <1996Aug17.221420.6231@clari.net> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug17.221420.6231@clari.net>, hhernandez@clari.net (Heather Hernández) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Olga Hughes SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "Hold for relay." From nchoi@mit.edu Tue Aug 20 15:25:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!mit!nchoi From: nchoi@mit.edu (Nadia Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug20.152520.5287@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 15:25:20 GMT References: <1996Aug17.221420.6231@clari.net> <1996Aug19.150720.3098@berkeley.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Aug19.150720.3098@berkeley.edu>, ohughes@berkeley.edu (Olga Hughes) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Nadia Choi Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ------------------------------------------------------------