From hrodriguez@netcom.com Tue Oct 04 19:17:21 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!netcom!hrodriguez From: hrodriguez@netcom.com (Heather Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct04.191721.2158@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 1994 19:17:21 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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? -- Heather Rodríguez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of NETCOM On-Line Communication Services. ------------------------------------------------------------ From jjohansson@panix.com Wed Oct 05 04:13:21 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!panix!jjohansson From: jjohansson@panix.com (Ji-woo Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct05.041321.8059@panix.com> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 1994 04:13:21 GMT References: <1994Oct04.191721.2158@netcom.com> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Oct04.191721.2158@netcom.com>, hrodriguez@netcom.com (Heather Rodríguez) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > 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. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Ji-woo Johansson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From fnakamura@tum.de Wed Oct 05 15:51:21 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!fnakamura From: fnakamura@tum.de (Fiona Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct05.155121.6714@tum.de> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 1994 15:51:21 GMT References: <1994Oct04.191721.2158@netcom.com> <1994Oct05.041321.8059@panix.com> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Oct05.041321.8059@panix.com>, jjohansson@panix.com (Ji-woo Johansson) 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 CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- === Fiona Nakamura === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Technische Universität München "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From kduarte@delphi.com Fri Oct 07 04:30:21 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!delphi!kduarte From: kduarte@delphi.com (Katrin Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct07.043021.4126@delphi.com> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 1994 04:30:21 GMT References: <1994Oct04.191721.2158@netcom.com> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct04.191721.2158@netcom.com>, hrodriguez@netcom.com (Heather Rodríguez) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- === Katrin Duarte === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Delphi Internet Services "Hold for relay."