From mrobertson@kth.se Fri Nov 10 11:51:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!mrobertson From: mrobertson@kth.se (Mei Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov10.115140.3453@kth.se> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 11:51:40 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Mei Robertson | mrobertson@kth.se PGP Key fingerprint: FB67 CFED 8A5A D5E4 "Keep the channels open." From kfischer@stanford.edu Sun Nov 12 12:16:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!stanford!kfischer From: kfischer@stanford.edu (Karen Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov12.121640.7987@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 12:16:40 GMT References: <1995Nov10.115140.3453@kth.se> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov10.115140.3453@kth.se>, mrobertson@kth.se (Mei Robertson) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Karen Fischer *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From rweber@inria.fr Tue Nov 14 04:49:40 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!inria!rweber From: rweber@inria.fr (Rodrigo Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov14.044940.5552@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 04:49:40 GMT References: <1995Nov10.115140.3453@kth.se> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Nov10.115140.3453@kth.se>, mrobertson@kth.se (Mei Robertson) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Rodrigo Weber Zyxel U-1496E @ 14,400 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."