From ekarlsson@inria.fr Thu Nov 21 16:53:51 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!inria!ekarlsson From: ekarlsson@inria.fr (Emi Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Nov21.165351.6204@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:53:51 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr 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. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Emi Karlsson "Do not worship the copy." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / AmigaOS 3.1 From slarsson@panix.com Sat Nov 23 00:50:51 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!panix!slarsson From: slarsson@panix.com (Sun-mi Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Nov23.005051.1609@panix.com> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 00:50:51 GMT References: <1996Nov21.165351.6204@inria.fr> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov21.165351.6204@inria.fr>, ekarlsson@inria.fr (Emi Karlsson) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Sun-mi Larsson Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens."