From mstewart@pacbell.net Sun Apr 09 12:42:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!pacbell!mstewart From: mstewart@pacbell.net (Min-jun Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr09.124222.8084@pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 09 Apr 1995 12:42:22 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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. 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? -- === Min-jun Stewart === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Pacific Bell Internet Services "Marcus is not one man." From dhernandez@purdue.edu Tue Apr 11 12:01:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!purdue!dhernandez From: dhernandez@purdue.edu (Dave Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr11.120122.7876@purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 12:01:22 GMT References: <1995Apr09.124222.8084@pacbell.net> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr09.124222.8084@pacbell.net>, mstewart@pacbell.net (Min-jun Stewart) 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. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Dave Hernández "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / FreeBSD 2.1 From jrobertson@stanford.edu Thu Apr 13 06:14:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!stanford!jrobertson From: jrobertson@stanford.edu (Ji-woo Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr13.061422.2340@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 06:14:22 GMT References: <1995Apr09.124222.8084@pacbell.net> <1995Apr11.120122.7876@purdue.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr11.120122.7876@purdue.edu>, dhernandez@purdue.edu (Dave Hernández) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Ji-woo Robertson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From alee@ox.ac.uk Sat Apr 15 04:38:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!alee From: alee@ox.ac.uk (Astrid Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr15.043822.9322@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 04:38:22 GMT References: <1995Apr09.124222.8084@pacbell.net> <1995Apr11.120122.7876@purdue.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr11.120122.7876@purdue.edu>, dhernandez@purdue.edu (Dave Hernández) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Astrid Lee US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 33,600 bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."