From jeriksson@cmu.edu Thu Aug 17 13:53:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cmu!jeriksson From: jeriksson@cmu.edu (Ji-woo Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug17.135343.8775@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 13:53:43 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Ji-woo Eriksson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Carnegie Mellon University School of CS. ------------------------------------------------------------ From jreyes@hanse.de Thu Aug 17 17:47:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!hanse!jreyes From: jreyes@hanse.de (Ji-woo Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug17.174743.6649@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 17:47:43 GMT References: <1995Aug17.135343.8775@cmu.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug17.135343.8775@cmu.edu>, jeriksson@cmu.edu (Ji-woo Eriksson) 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. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Ji-woo Reyes Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg. ------------------------------------------------------------ From spopov@cern.ch Fri Aug 18 18:03:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cern!spopov From: spopov@cern.ch (Steve Popov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug18.180343.9261@cern.ch> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 18:03:43 GMT References: <1995Aug17.135343.8775@cmu.edu> <1995Aug17.174743.6649@hanse.de> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug17.174743.6649@hanse.de>, jreyes@hanse.de (Ji-woo Reyes) 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. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- === Steve Popov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "We don't sign stars. We build them." From mgonzalez@stanford.edu Sat Aug 19 13:03:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!stanford!mgonzalez From: mgonzalez@stanford.edu (Morag González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug19.130343.6574@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 13:03:43 GMT References: <1995Aug17.135343.8775@cmu.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Aug17.135343.8775@cmu.edu>, jeriksson@cmu.edu (Ji-woo Eriksson) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Morag González US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Row 14. No joke."