From khernandez@cmu.edu Sat Nov 04 21:03:49 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cmu!khernandez From: khernandez@cmu.edu (Kenji Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov04.210349.5202@cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 21:03:49 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 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. 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? -- Kenji Hernández Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From kmartinez@utexas.edu Mon Nov 06 00:38:49 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!utexas!kmartinez From: kmartinez@utexas.edu (Kirsty Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov06.003849.1210@utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 00:38:49 GMT References: <1995Nov04.210349.5202@cmu.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Nov04.210349.5202@cmu.edu>, khernandez@cmu.edu (Kenji Hernández) writes: > 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- === Kirsty Martínez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From kmoreno@berkeley.edu Tue Nov 07 12:35:49 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!berkeley!kmoreno From: kmoreno@berkeley.edu (Kenji Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov07.123549.1825@berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 12:35:49 GMT References: <1995Nov04.210349.5202@cmu.edu> <1995Nov06.003849.1210@utexas.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Nov06.003849.1210@utexas.edu>, kmartinez@utexas.edu (Kirsty Martínez) 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. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Kenji Moreno -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From stakahashi@illinois.edu Thu Nov 09 13:38:49 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!illinois!stakahashi From: stakahashi@illinois.edu (Sergei Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov09.133849.8582@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 13:38:49 GMT References: <1995Nov04.210349.5202@cmu.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov04.210349.5202@cmu.edu>, khernandez@cmu.edu (Kenji Hernández) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Sergei Takahashi | stakahashi@illinois.edu PGP Key fingerprint: F3FC 9639 D6B1 82C0 "Keep the channels open." From feriksson@purdue.edu Thu Nov 09 17:01:49 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!purdue!feriksson From: feriksson@purdue.edu (Freya Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov09.170149.1778@purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 17:01:49 GMT References: <1995Nov04.210349.5202@cmu.edu> <1995Nov09.133849.8582@illinois.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Nov09.133849.8582@illinois.edu>, stakahashi@illinois.edu (Sergei Takahashi) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Freya Eriksson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Purdue University Engineering Computer Network. ------------------------------------------------------------