From lfischer@kth.se Thu Mar 16 07:16:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!lfischer From: lfischer@kth.se (Lucia Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar16.071659.6836@kth.se> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 07:16:59 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Lucia Fischer *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From bmartinez@pipeline.com Thu Mar 16 09:58:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pipeline!bmartinez From: bmartinez@pipeline.com (Bill Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar16.095859.3434@pipeline.com> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 09:58:59 GMT References: <1995Mar16.071659.6836@kth.se> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Mar16.071659.6836@kth.se>, lfischer@kth.se (Lucia Fischer) 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Bill Martínez -- The Pipeline Internet Network "They will send a copy in my place." From sdubois@illinois.edu Sat Mar 18 12:48:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!illinois!sdubois From: sdubois@illinois.edu (Sun-mi Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar18.124859.7337@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 12:48:59 GMT References: <1995Mar16.071659.6836@kth.se> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar16.071659.6836@kth.se>, lfischer@kth.se (Lucia Fischer) 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. 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. -- Sun-mi Dubois -- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From phernandez@cmu.edu Sun Mar 19 12:25:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!phernandez From: phernandez@cmu.edu (Pavel Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar19.122559.9665@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 12:25:59 GMT References: <1995Mar16.071659.6836@kth.se> <1995Mar16.095859.3434@pipeline.com> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar16.095859.3434@pipeline.com>, bmartinez@pipeline.com (Bill Martínez) 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. -- Pavel Hernández "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Atari TT030 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From jramirez@mit.edu Tue Mar 21 12:04:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mit!jramirez From: jramirez@mit.edu (Jen Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar21.120459.7460@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 12:04:59 GMT References: <1995Mar16.071659.6836@kth.se> <1995Mar16.095859.3434@pipeline.com> <1995Mar19.122559.9665@cmu.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Mar19.122559.9665@cmu.edu>, phernandez@cmu.edu (Pavel Hernández) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. 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. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Jen Ramírez | jramirez@mit.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 5CFC 2C01 B64C 9398 "Keep the channels open."