From anovak@clari.net Fri Jul 08 06:30:26 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!clari!anovak From: anovak@clari.net (Anja Novak) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul08.063026.4036@clari.net> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 1994 06:30:26 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Anja Novak *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From atanaka@cam.ac.uk Sat Jul 09 05:35:26 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cam!atanaka From: atanaka@cam.ac.uk (Amy Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul09.053526.7872@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 1994 05:35:26 GMT References: <1994Jul08.063026.4036@clari.net> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul08.063026.4036@clari.net>, anovak@clari.net (Anja Novak) 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. -- Amy Tanaka | atanaka@cam.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 1133 C9AD 24BB CD57 "Keep the channels open." From msuzuki@stanford.edu Sun Jul 10 22:49:26 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!stanford!msuzuki From: msuzuki@stanford.edu (Morag Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul10.224926.1998@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 22:49:26 GMT References: <1994Jul08.063026.4036@clari.net> <1994Jul09.053526.7872@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Jul09.053526.7872@cam.ac.uk>, atanaka@cam.ac.uk (Amy Tanaka) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Morag Suzuki -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."