From rsouza@hanse.de Tue Apr 18 02:41:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!hanse!rsouza From: rsouza@hanse.de (Renata Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr18.024143.6198@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 02:41:43 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Renata Souza SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "Marcus is not one man." From esato@kth.se Wed Apr 19 16:29:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kth!esato From: esato@kth.se (Élodie Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr19.162943.5446@kth.se> Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 16:29:43 GMT References: <1995Apr18.024143.6198@hanse.de> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Apr18.024143.6198@hanse.de>, rsouza@hanse.de (Renata Souza) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Élodie Sato | esato@kth.se PGP Key fingerprint: EA13 3B61 9F0D 64EA "Keep the channels open." From dfournier@clari.net Thu Apr 20 03:33:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!clari!dfournier From: dfournier@clari.net (Dong-hyun Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr20.033343.3354@clari.net> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 03:33:43 GMT References: <1995Apr18.024143.6198@hanse.de> <1995Apr19.162943.5446@kth.se> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Apr19.162943.5446@kth.se>, esato@kth.se (Élodie Sato) writes: > The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. > Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- === Dong-hyun Fournier === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From abrennan@clari.net Thu Apr 20 20:53:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!clari!abrennan From: abrennan@clari.net (Aiko Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr20.205343.3881@clari.net> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 20:53:43 GMT References: <1995Apr18.024143.6198@hanse.de> <1995Apr19.162943.5446@kth.se> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Apr19.162943.5446@kth.se>, esato@kth.se (Élodie Sato) writes: > The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. > Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Aiko Brennan -- ClariNet Communications Corp "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."