From gmartinez@netcom.com Thu Feb 03 21:06:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!netcom!gmartinez From: gmartinez@netcom.com (Graham Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb03.210606.8941@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 1994 21:06:06 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Graham Martínez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From dsilva@ox.ac.uk Sat Feb 05 04:02:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!ox!dsilva From: dsilva@ox.ac.uk (Dave Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb05.040206.7089@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 1994 04:02:06 GMT References: <1994Feb03.210606.8941@netcom.com> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb03.210606.8941@netcom.com>, gmartinez@netcom.com (Graham Martínez) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Dave Silva Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "Marcus is not one man." From enilsson@hanse.de Sun Feb 06 14:55:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!hanse!enilsson From: enilsson@hanse.de (Élodie Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb06.145506.9847@hanse.de> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 1994 14:55:06 GMT References: <1994Feb03.210606.8941@netcom.com> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb03.210606.8941@netcom.com>, gmartinez@netcom.com (Graham Martínez) writes: > 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. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Élodie Nilsson -- Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From isokolov@inria.fr Mon Feb 07 13:10:06 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!inria!isokolov From: isokolov@inria.fr (Ines Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb07.131006.2063@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 13:10:06 GMT References: <1994Feb03.210606.8941@netcom.com> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1994Feb03.210606.8941@netcom.com>, gmartinez@netcom.com (Graham Martínez) writes: > 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. 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. -- Ines Sokolov "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / TOS 4.04