From icampbell@cam.ac.uk Sun Feb 26 23:34:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cam!icampbell From: icampbell@cam.ac.uk (Ines Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb26.233459.2653@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 23:34:59 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Ines Campbell "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / AmigaOS 3.1 From llopez@pacbell.net Wed Mar 01 02:15:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pacbell!llopez From: llopez@pacbell.net (Lucia López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar01.021559.1885@pacbell.net> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 02:15:59 GMT References: <1995Feb26.233459.2653@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Feb26.233459.2653@cam.ac.uk>, icampbell@cam.ac.uk (Ines Campbell) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Lucia López Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Pacific Bell Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------ From sandersson@hanse.de Wed Mar 01 18:16:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!hanse!sandersson From: sandersson@hanse.de (Sergei Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar01.181659.9510@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 18:16:59 GMT References: <1995Feb26.233459.2653@cam.ac.uk> <1995Mar01.021559.1885@pacbell.net> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar01.021559.1885@pacbell.net>, llopez@pacbell.net (Lucia López) writes: > That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Sergei Andersson "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / Linux 1.2.13 From nbrennan@utexas.edu Fri Mar 03 19:18:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!utexas!nbrennan From: nbrennan@utexas.edu (Natalia Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar03.191859.9457@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 1995 19:18:59 GMT References: <1995Feb26.233459.2653@cam.ac.uk> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Feb26.233459.2653@cam.ac.uk>, icampbell@cam.ac.uk (Ines Campbell) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Natalia Brennan "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / Linux 1.2.13