From voliveira@pipeline.com Wed Jun 28 11:34:43 1995
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From: voliveira@pipeline.com (Valeria Oliveira)
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Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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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.
Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.

How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation?

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From gdubois@inria.fr Fri Jun 30 13:32:43 1995
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From: gdubois@inria.fr (Graham Dubois)
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Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Jun28.113443.5407@pipeline.com>, voliveira@pipeline.com (Valeria Oliveira) 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.

The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code.

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