From gramirez@utexas.edu Sun Dec 03 21:34:53 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!utexas!gramirez From: gramirez@utexas.edu (Graham Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec03.213453.3633@utexas.edu> Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 21:34:53 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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? -- Graham Ramírez US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From apopov@panix.com Tue Dec 05 18:18:53 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!panix!apopov From: apopov@panix.com (Anja Popov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec05.181853.1436@panix.com> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 18:18:53 GMT References: <1995Dec03.213453.3633@utexas.edu> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec03.213453.3633@utexas.edu>, gramirez@utexas.edu (Graham Ramírez) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Anja Popov | apopov@panix.com PGP Key fingerprint: 5AA6 6484 4E99 5FB9 "Keep the channels open."