From bfischer@mindspring.com Sat Jun 10 04:57:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mindspring!bfischer From: bfischer@mindspring.com (Bill Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun10.045704.5373@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 04:57:04 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Bill Fischer *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From dlopez@earthlink.net Sun Jun 11 19:45:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!earthlink!dlopez From: dlopez@earthlink.net (Diego López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun11.194504.8774@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 19:45:04 GMT References: <1995Jun10.045704.5373@mindspring.com> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun10.045704.5373@mindspring.com>, bfischer@mindspring.com (Bill Fischer) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Diego López -- EarthLink Network "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From msouza@netcom.com Sun Jun 11 22:00:04 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!netcom!msouza From: msouza@netcom.com (Min-jun Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun11.220004.9712@netcom.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 22:00:04 GMT References: <1995Jun10.045704.5373@mindspring.com> <1995Jun11.194504.8774@earthlink.net> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun11.194504.8774@earthlink.net>, dlopez@earthlink.net (Diego López) writes: > The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- === Min-jun Souza === Dept of Electrical Engineering, NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "They will send a copy in my place."