From awatanabe@cmu.edu Mon Feb 05 07:14:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cmu!awatanabe From: awatanabe@cmu.edu (Aiko Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Feb05.071444.2402@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 07:14:44 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.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. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Aiko Watanabe "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Sun SparcStation 20 / SunOS 4.1.4 From kmartinez@earthlink.net Tue Feb 06 07:50:44 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!kmartinez From: kmartinez@earthlink.net (Kirsty Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Feb06.075044.5495@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 07:50:44 GMT References: <1996Feb05.071444.2402@cmu.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb05.071444.2402@cmu.edu>, awatanabe@cmu.edu (Aiko Watanabe) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Kirsty Martínez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of EarthLink Network. ------------------------------------------------------------