From asokolov@titech.ac.jp Sun Nov 17 06:32:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!titech!asokolov From: asokolov@titech.ac.jp (Anja Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Nov17.063238.8010@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 06:32:38 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Anja Sokolov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From bweber@pacbell.net Mon Nov 18 20:07:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!pacbell!bweber From: bweber@pacbell.net (Bill Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Nov18.200738.9506@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 20:07:38 GMT References: <1996Nov17.063238.8010@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Nov17.063238.8010@titech.ac.jp>, asokolov@titech.ac.jp (Anja Sokolov) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Bill Weber | bweber@pacbell.net PGP Key fingerprint: 7BF2 FDDB 008D A2FC "Keep the channels open." From dkang@rwth-aachen.de Tue Nov 19 22:27:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!rwth-aachen!dkang From: dkang@rwth-aachen.de (Dmitri Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Nov19.222738.2039@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 22:27:38 GMT References: <1996Nov17.063238.8010@titech.ac.jp> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1996Nov17.063238.8010@titech.ac.jp>, asokolov@titech.ac.jp (Anja Sokolov) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Dmitri Kang | dkang@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: B809 854F D82D 247B "Keep the channels open." From dnakamura@hanse.de Thu Nov 21 15:00:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!hanse!dnakamura From: dnakamura@hanse.de (Dmitri Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Nov21.150038.4219@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 15:00:38 GMT References: <1996Nov17.063238.8010@titech.ac.jp> <1996Nov19.222738.2039@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Nov19.222738.2039@rwth-aachen.de>, dkang@rwth-aachen.de (Dmitri Kang) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Dmitri Nakamura *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0 From asantos@earthlink.net Fri Nov 22 01:21:38 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!earthlink!asantos From: asantos@earthlink.net (Aiko Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Nov22.012138.8040@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 01:21:38 GMT References: <1996Nov17.063238.8010@titech.ac.jp> <1996Nov19.222738.2039@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov19.222738.2039@rwth-aachen.de>, dkang@rwth-aachen.de (Dmitri Kang) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Aiko Santos Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of EarthLink Network. ------------------------------------------------------------