From lkowalski@ox.ac.uk Wed Jul 13 00:59:08 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!ox!lkowalski From: lkowalski@ox.ac.uk (Lucia Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul13.005908.1878@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 00:59:08 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. 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? -- Lucia Kowalski | lkowalski@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 0494 A9CA 855C 58E3 "Keep the channels open." From dduarte@cam.ac.uk Thu Jul 14 00:11:08 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cam!dduarte From: dduarte@cam.ac.uk (Dmitri Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul14.001108.7704@cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1994 00:11:08 GMT References: <1994Jul13.005908.1878@ox.ac.uk> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Jul13.005908.1878@ox.ac.uk>, lkowalski@ox.ac.uk (Lucia Kowalski) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Dmitri Duarte *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0 From vkuznetsov@uni-hamburg.de Fri Jul 15 12:12:08 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uni-hamburg!vkuznetsov From: vkuznetsov@uni-hamburg.de (Valeria Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul15.121208.9021@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 12:12:08 GMT References: <1994Jul13.005908.1878@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul13.005908.1878@ox.ac.uk>, lkowalski@ox.ac.uk (Lucia Kowalski) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Valeria Kuznetsov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.