From tgarcia@earthlink.net Thu Nov 02 08:59:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!earthlink!tgarcia From: tgarcia@earthlink.net (Tobias García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov02.085933.7654@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 08:59:33 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. -- === Tobias García === Dept of Electrical Engineering, EarthLink Network "They will send a copy in my place." From bsuzuki@kiae.su Fri Nov 03 10:08:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!kiae!bsuzuki From: bsuzuki@kiae.su (Bastien Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov03.100833.8450@kiae.su> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 10:08:33 GMT References: <1995Nov02.085933.7654@earthlink.net> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov02.085933.7654@earthlink.net>, tgarcia@earthlink.net (Tobias García) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Bastien Suzuki | bsuzuki@kiae.su PGP Key fingerprint: 0292 7D81 8144 A9AE "Keep the channels open." From slopez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Nov 04 07:12:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!slopez From: slopez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Sun-mi López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov04.071233.4729@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 07:12:33 GMT References: <1995Nov02.085933.7654@earthlink.net> <1995Nov03.100833.8450@kiae.su> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov03.100833.8450@kiae.su>, bsuzuki@kiae.su (Bastien Suzuki) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Sun-mi López SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "Do not worship the copy." From tlopez@cern.ch Sun Nov 05 14:34:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cern!tlopez From: tlopez@cern.ch (Tomas López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov05.143433.3292@cern.ch> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 1995 14:34:33 GMT References: <1995Nov02.085933.7654@earthlink.net> <1995Nov03.100833.8450@kiae.su> <1995Nov04.071233.4729@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov04.071233.4729@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, slopez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Sun-mi López) writes: > If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Tomas López Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva. ------------------------------------------------------------