From evasiliev@illinois.edu Mon Mar 27 21:37:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!illinois!evasiliev From: evasiliev@illinois.edu (Emi Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar27.213718.7225@illinois.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 21:37:18 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Emi Vasiliev | evasiliev@illinois.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 937F DBAA 148D 56F7 "Keep the channels open." From ylee@mit.edu Tue Mar 28 12:26:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mit!ylee From: ylee@mit.edu (Yuki Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar28.122618.4183@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 12:26:18 GMT References: <1995Mar27.213718.7225@illinois.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar27.213718.7225@illinois.edu>, evasiliev@illinois.edu (Emi Vasiliev) 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. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Yuki Lee Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From lito@netcom.com Thu Mar 30 05:12:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!netcom!lito From: lito@netcom.com (Lisa Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar30.051218.9977@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 05:12:18 GMT References: <1995Mar27.213718.7225@illinois.edu> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar27.213718.7225@illinois.edu>, evasiliev@illinois.edu (Emi Vasiliev) writes: > 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Lisa Ito *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0