From jschneider@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Jul 15 19:05:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!u-tokyo!jschneider From: jschneider@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Jen Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul15.190509.5539@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 19:05:09 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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? -- === Jen Schneider === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "Do not worship the copy." From aoliveira@cern.ch Mon Jul 17 01:02:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cern!aoliveira From: aoliveira@cern.ch (Andrei Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul17.010209.6980@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 01:02:09 GMT References: <1995Jul15.190509.5539@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul15.190509.5539@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, jschneider@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Jen Schneider) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Andrei Oliveira "Hold for relay." NeXTstation Turbo Color / Linux 1.2.13