From tsmirnov@mindspring.com Thu Jun 13 04:18:47 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mindspring!tsmirnov From: tsmirnov@mindspring.com (Takeshi Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun13.041847.9336@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 04:18:47 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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? -- Takeshi Smirnov "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Atari Falcon 030 / TOS 4.04 From jnakamura@cmu.edu Fri Jun 14 11:31:47 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cmu!jnakamura From: jnakamura@cmu.edu (Julien Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun14.113147.2716@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 11:31:47 GMT References: <1996Jun13.041847.9336@mindspring.com> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jun13.041847.9336@mindspring.com>, tsmirnov@mindspring.com (Takeshi Smirnov) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Julien Nakamura Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Carnegie Mellon University School of CS. ------------------------------------------------------------