From hkang@stanford.edu Sat May 11 00:14:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!stanford!hkang From: hkang@stanford.edu (Heather Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May11.001448.5378@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 00:14:48 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu 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. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Heather Kang "Do not worship the copy." Acorn RiscPC 600 / System 7.5.1 From apark@demon.co.uk Sun May 12 08:55:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!demon!apark From: apark@demon.co.uk (Anja Park) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May12.085548.4707@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 08:55:48 GMT References: <1996May11.001448.5378@stanford.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996May11.001448.5378@stanford.edu>, hkang@stanford.edu (Heather Kang) 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. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Anja Park "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Atari Falcon 030 / FreeBSD 2.1 From dandersson@inria.fr Sun May 12 17:26:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!dandersson From: dandersson@inria.fr (Dong-hyun Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May12.172648.3979@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 17:26:48 GMT References: <1996May11.001448.5378@stanford.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996May11.001448.5378@stanford.edu>, hkang@stanford.edu (Heather Kang) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. -- Dong-hyun Andersson "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Amiga 3000T / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From llarsson@berkeley.edu Mon May 13 22:36:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!berkeley!llarsson From: llarsson@berkeley.edu (Lucia Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May13.223648.1728@berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 22:36:48 GMT References: <1996May11.001448.5378@stanford.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996May11.001448.5378@stanford.edu>, hkang@stanford.edu (Heather Kang) 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. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Lucia Larsson "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / SunOS 4.1.4 From vnilsson@kiae.su Wed May 15 15:36:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kiae!vnilsson From: vnilsson@kiae.su (Valeria Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May15.153648.3599@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 15:36:48 GMT References: <1996May11.001448.5378@stanford.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996May11.001448.5378@stanford.edu>, hkang@stanford.edu (Heather Kang) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Valeria Nilsson "Row 14. No joke." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / System 7.5.1