From ghernandez@ox.ac.uk Sat May 21 12:43:27 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!ox!ghernandez From: ghernandez@ox.ac.uk (Graham Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994May21.124327.8078@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 12:43:27 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. 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? -- Graham Hernández Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From slaurent@tum.de Sat May 21 14:41:27 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!tum!slaurent From: slaurent@tum.de (Seo-yeon Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994May21.144127.7005@tum.de> Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 14:41:27 GMT References: <1994May21.124327.8078@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994May21.124327.8078@ox.ac.uk>, ghernandez@ox.ac.uk (Graham Hernández) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Seo-yeon Laurent *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0 From gfournier@mindspring.com Sun May 22 15:57:27 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mindspring!gfournier From: gfournier@mindspring.com (Graham Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994May22.155727.7031@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 22 May 1994 15:57:27 GMT References: <1994May21.124327.8078@ox.ac.uk> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994May21.124327.8078@ox.ac.uk>, ghernandez@ox.ac.uk (Graham Hernández) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Graham Fournier *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0