Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!OBERLIN!FNELSON From: FNELSON@OBERLIN.BITNET Newsgroups: bit.listserv.emusic-l Subject: RE: NeXT Music Synthesis Software Message-ID: Date: 9 Feb 90 18:14:00 GMT Sender: Electronic Music Discussion List Reply-To: Electronic Music Discussion List Lines: 14 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM Gateway X-VMS-To: IN%"EMUSIC-L@AUVM" LPC is a software synthesis technique that can produce very realistic results by analysing sampled sounds and separating the spectrum from the pitch and sound source. Speaking voices can be made to sing., acoustic instruments can whisper. One of the greatest examples is "lPerfect Days" by Andy Moorer where a poet and a flutists are recorded and cross-synthesized in ways that are impossible to describe. Imagiune a vocoder with much wider timbral characteristics. Some of Lansky's pieces are out on CD now (don't know the numbers) but look in the Schwann catalog). "idleIdle Chatter" is his biggest hit but allm all of his pieces are woirth listening tooto. AlonPaul Lansky and Charles Dodg e usareboth use LPC.