From jandersson@uu.net Mon Jul 25 23:23:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!uu!jandersson From: jandersson@uu.net (Jen Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul25.232342.9536@uu.net> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 1994 23:23:42 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Jen Andersson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From mkuznetsov@uu.net Tue Jul 26 21:24:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uu!mkuznetsov From: mkuznetsov@uu.net (Mathieu Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul26.212442.3081@uu.net> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 21:24:42 GMT References: <1994Jul25.232342.9536@uu.net> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Jul25.232342.9536@uu.net>, jandersson@uu.net (Jen Andersson) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Mathieu Kuznetsov "Do not worship the copy." Atari TT030 / SunOS 4.1.4 From ggirard@rwth-aachen.de Thu Jul 28 18:46:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!rwth-aachen!ggirard From: ggirard@rwth-aachen.de (Graham Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul28.184642.6782@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 18:46:42 GMT References: <1994Jul25.232342.9536@uu.net> <1994Jul26.212442.3081@uu.net> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jul26.212442.3081@uu.net>, mkuznetsov@uu.net (Mathieu Kuznetsov) writes: > The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. > Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Graham Girard | ggirard@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: 3E7B 3558 5012 8CDF "Keep the channels open." From hnakamura@netcom.com Fri Jul 29 06:48:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!netcom!hnakamura From: hnakamura@netcom.com (Hugo Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul29.064842.4627@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 06:48:42 GMT References: <1994Jul25.232342.9536@uu.net> <1994Jul26.212442.3081@uu.net> <1994Jul28.184642.6782@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Jul28.184642.6782@rwth-aachen.de>, ggirard@rwth-aachen.de (Graham Girard) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Hugo Nakamura Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."