From gschneider@inria.fr Mon Jan 03 15:29:51 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!inria!gschneider From: gschneider@inria.fr (Graham Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan03.152951.5339@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 1994 15:29:51 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Graham Schneider Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------ From lreyes@mindspring.com Wed Jan 05 15:02:51 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mindspring!lreyes From: lreyes@mindspring.com (Liam Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan05.150251.8276@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 1994 15:02:51 GMT References: <1994Jan03.152951.5339@inria.fr> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jan03.152951.5339@inria.fr>, gschneider@inria.fr (Graham Schneider) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Liam Reyes *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0 From greyes@demon.co.uk Fri Jan 07 06:44:51 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!demon!greyes From: greyes@demon.co.uk (Graham Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan07.064451.7429@demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 1994 06:44:51 GMT References: <1994Jan03.152951.5339@inria.fr> <1994Jan05.150251.8276@mindspring.com> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan05.150251.8276@mindspring.com>, lreyes@mindspring.com (Liam Reyes) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- === Graham Reyes === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Demon Internet Services UK "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."