From snilsson@uu.net Tue Oct 08 05:16:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!snilsson From: snilsson@uu.net (Sun-mi Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct08.051628.2823@uu.net> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 05:16:28 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Sun-mi Nilsson "Do not worship the copy." Acorn RiscPC 600 / FreeBSD 2.1 From ssmirnov@titech.ac.jp Tue Oct 08 08:27:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!titech!ssmirnov From: ssmirnov@titech.ac.jp (Seo-yeon Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct08.082728.5492@titech.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 08:27:28 GMT References: <1996Oct08.051628.2823@uu.net> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct08.051628.2823@uu.net>, snilsson@uu.net (Sun-mi Nilsson) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- === Seo-yeon Smirnov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "Marcus is not one man."