From sweber@cmu.edu Tue Apr 04 05:22:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cmu!sweber From: sweber@cmu.edu (Sergei Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr04.052211.6904@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 05:22:11 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Sergei Weber | sweber@cmu.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 0D71 64B6 1ED4 7643 "Keep the channels open." From mfournier@cam.ac.uk Tue Apr 04 20:23:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cam!mfournier From: mfournier@cam.ac.uk (Mei Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr04.202311.9915@cam.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 20:23:11 GMT References: <1995Apr04.052211.6904@cmu.edu> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Apr04.052211.6904@cmu.edu>, sweber@cmu.edu (Sergei Weber) 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Mei Fournier Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From jtanaka@panix.com Wed Apr 05 19:56:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!panix!jtanaka From: jtanaka@panix.com (Ji-woo Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr05.195611.7707@panix.com> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1995 19:56:11 GMT References: <1995Apr04.052211.6904@cmu.edu> <1995Apr04.202311.9915@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr04.202311.9915@cam.ac.uk>, mfournier@cam.ac.uk (Mei Fournier) writes: > The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. > Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Ji-woo Tanaka *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0