From tmuller@tum.de Fri Oct 07 10:17:57 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!tmuller From: tmuller@tum.de (Thiago Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct07.101757.4726@tum.de> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 1994 10:17:57 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de 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. 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? -- Thiago Müller US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From tlarsson@kiae.su Sun Oct 09 08:28:57 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kiae!tlarsson From: tlarsson@kiae.su (Tomas Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct09.082857.2321@kiae.su> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 1994 08:28:57 GMT References: <1994Oct07.101757.4726@tum.de> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Oct07.101757.4726@tum.de>, tmuller@tum.de (Thiago Müller) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Tomas Larsson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From jnilsson@earthlink.net Sun Oct 09 17:48:57 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!earthlink!jnilsson From: jnilsson@earthlink.net (Jen Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct09.174857.5320@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 1994 17:48:57 GMT References: <1994Oct07.101757.4726@tum.de> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct07.101757.4726@tum.de>, tmuller@tum.de (Thiago Müller) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Jen Nilsson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.