From mwatanabe@uni-hamburg.de Sat Dec 24 16:09:12 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uni-hamburg!mwatanabe From: mwatanabe@uni-hamburg.de (Mateo Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec24.160912.5455@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 16:09:12 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 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. -- Mateo Watanabe Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From ftanaka@hanse.de Sun Dec 25 00:19:12 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!hanse!ftanaka From: ftanaka@hanse.de (Fiona Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec25.001912.1037@hanse.de> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 1994 00:19:12 GMT References: <1994Dec24.160912.5455@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Dec24.160912.5455@uni-hamburg.de>, mwatanabe@uni-hamburg.de (Mateo Watanabe) 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. 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. -- Fiona Tanaka SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From sgarcia@earthlink.net Mon Dec 26 11:37:12 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!earthlink!sgarcia From: sgarcia@earthlink.net (Sun-mi García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec26.113712.1262@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 1994 11:37:12 GMT References: <1994Dec24.160912.5455@uni-hamburg.de> <1994Dec25.001912.1037@hanse.de> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Dec25.001912.1037@hanse.de>, ftanaka@hanse.de (Fiona Tanaka) 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. 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. -- Sun-mi García *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0