From msanchez@uu.net Fri Jan 05 04:23:19 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uu!msanchez From: msanchez@uu.net (Morag Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan05.042319.1791@uu.net> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 04:23:19 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. 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? -- Morag Sánchez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From rmoreno@panix.com Sat Jan 06 20:43:19 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!panix!rmoreno From: rmoreno@panix.com (Raj Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan06.204319.7680@panix.com> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 20:43:19 GMT References: <1996Jan05.042319.1791@uu.net> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan05.042319.1791@uu.net>, msanchez@uu.net (Morag Sánchez) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Raj Moreno "A soul is not exclusive to biology." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / AmigaOS 3.1 From msouza@earthlink.net Mon Jan 08 12:12:19 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!earthlink!msouza From: msouza@earthlink.net (Morag Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan08.121219.2343@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 12:12:19 GMT References: <1996Jan05.042319.1791@uu.net> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Jan05.042319.1791@uu.net>, msanchez@uu.net (Morag Sánchez) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Morag Souza -- EarthLink Network "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"