From esato@pipeline.com Sun Jun 02 16:27:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pipeline!esato From: esato@pipeline.com (Emi Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun02.162733.9635@pipeline.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 16:27:33 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Emi Sato | esato@pipeline.com PGP Key fingerprint: DB13 3184 FF64 8A90 "Keep the channels open." From lkarlsson@purdue.edu Tue Jun 04 00:37:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!purdue!lkarlsson From: lkarlsson@purdue.edu (Lars Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun04.003733.7183@purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 00:37:33 GMT References: <1996Jun02.162733.9635@pipeline.com> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun02.162733.9635@pipeline.com>, esato@pipeline.com (Emi Sato) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Lars Karlsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From anovak@ox.ac.uk Tue Jun 04 09:39:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!ox!anovak From: anovak@ox.ac.uk (Aiko Novak) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun04.093933.1643@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 09:39:33 GMT References: <1996Jun02.162733.9635@pipeline.com> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun02.162733.9635@pipeline.com>, esato@pipeline.com (Emi Sato) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Aiko Novak *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From sstewart@pipeline.com Wed Jun 05 11:41:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!pipeline!sstewart From: sstewart@pipeline.com (Steve Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun05.114133.1149@pipeline.com> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 11:41:33 GMT References: <1996Jun02.162733.9635@pipeline.com> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Jun02.162733.9635@pipeline.com>, esato@pipeline.com (Emi Sato) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Steve Stewart | sstewart@pipeline.com PGP Key fingerprint: 177A EE7B D7EC EF5E "Keep the channels open." From gtakahashi@hanse.de Wed Jun 05 23:23:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!hanse!gtakahashi From: gtakahashi@hanse.de (Graham Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun05.232333.3999@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 1996 23:23:33 GMT References: <1996Jun02.162733.9635@pipeline.com> <1996Jun04.003733.7183@purdue.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun04.003733.7183@purdue.edu>, lkarlsson@purdue.edu (Lars Karlsson) writes: > The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Graham Takahashi "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / AmigaOS 3.1