From gjohansson@unam.mx Tue Jun 13 19:50:31 1995
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From: gjohansson@unam.mx (Graham Johansson)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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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.

Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry?

-- 
Graham Johansson
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA).
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From rramirez@cmu.edu Thu Jun 15 22:30:31 1995
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From: rramirez@cmu.edu (Renata Ramírez)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Jun13.195031.4736@unam.mx>, gjohansson@unam.mx (Graham Johansson) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'

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Renata Ramírez
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