From nfischer@illinois.edu Sun Nov 24 01:53:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!nfischer From: nfischer@illinois.edu (Natalia Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Nov24.015328.4805@illinois.edu> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 01:53:28 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Natalia Fischer "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Acorn RiscPC 600 / TOS 4.04 From mramirez@berkeley.edu Mon Nov 25 04:40:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!berkeley!mramirez From: mramirez@berkeley.edu (Marta Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Nov25.044028.7908@berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 04:40:28 GMT References: <1996Nov24.015328.4805@illinois.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov24.015328.4805@illinois.edu>, nfischer@illinois.edu (Natalia Fischer) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- === Marta Ramírez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of EECS "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From gnilsson@mindspring.com Wed Nov 27 06:04:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mindspring!gnilsson From: gnilsson@mindspring.com (Graham Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Nov27.060428.8441@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 06:04:28 GMT References: <1996Nov24.015328.4805@illinois.edu> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1996Nov24.015328.4805@illinois.edu>, nfischer@illinois.edu (Natalia Fischer) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Graham Nilsson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From ekuznetsov@delphi.com Fri Nov 29 01:52:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!delphi!ekuznetsov From: ekuznetsov@delphi.com (Emi Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Nov29.015228.9255@delphi.com> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 01:52:28 GMT References: <1996Nov24.015328.4805@illinois.edu> <1996Nov25.044028.7908@berkeley.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Nov25.044028.7908@berkeley.edu>, mramirez@berkeley.edu (Marta Ramírez) writes: > The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Emi Kuznetsov -- Delphi Internet Services "Marcus is not one man."