From tlee@kiae.su Thu Aug 22 22:48:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kiae!tlee From: tlee@kiae.su (Takeshi Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug22.224820.2799@kiae.su> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 22:48:20 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Takeshi Lee SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From fmoreau@purdue.edu Sun Aug 25 00:05:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!purdue!fmoreau From: fmoreau@purdue.edu (Fiona Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug25.000520.3907@purdue.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 00:05:20 GMT References: <1996Aug22.224820.2799@kiae.su> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Aug22.224820.2799@kiae.su>, tlee@kiae.su (Takeshi Lee) 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. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- === Fiona Moreau === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From jlarsson@unam.mx Mon Aug 26 17:08:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!unam!jlarsson From: jlarsson@unam.mx (Julien Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug26.170820.4116@unam.mx> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 17:08:20 GMT References: <1996Aug22.224820.2799@kiae.su> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug22.224820.2799@kiae.su>, tlee@kiae.su (Takeshi Lee) 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Julien Larsson -- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) "Marcus is not one man." From dsouza@delphi.com Tue Aug 27 03:14:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!delphi!dsouza From: dsouza@delphi.com (Dave Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug27.031420.6422@delphi.com> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 03:14:20 GMT References: <1996Aug22.224820.2799@kiae.su> <1996Aug25.000520.3907@purdue.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Aug25.000520.3907@purdue.edu>, fmoreau@purdue.edu (Fiona Moreau) writes: > If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Dave Souza *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0