From bsokolov@ox.ac.uk Wed Mar 27 14:37:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!ox!bsokolov From: bsokolov@ox.ac.uk (Bill Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Mar27.143714.5857@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 14:37:14 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? In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Bill Sokolov "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / AmigaOS 3.1 From hito@ox.ac.uk Fri Mar 29 01:12:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!hito From: hito@ox.ac.uk (Heather Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Mar29.011214.3720@ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 01:12:14 GMT References: <1996Mar27.143714.5857@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar27.143714.5857@ox.ac.uk>, bsokolov@ox.ac.uk (Bill Sokolov) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Heather Ito *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0