From msanchez@mit.edu Sun Jul 16 19:46:41 1995
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From: msanchez@mit.edu (Marta Sánchez)
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Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer.

In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials.
It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.'

Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled?

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Marta Sánchez
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From jmoreau@earthlink.net Tue Jul 18 01:30:41 1995
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From: jmoreau@earthlink.net (Jen Moreau)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Jul16.194641.7531@mit.edu>, msanchez@mit.edu (Marta Sánchez) writes:
> I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer.

Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes.

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Jen Moreau -- EarthLink Network
"Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."

From lfischer@utexas.edu Wed Jul 19 00:29:41 1995
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From: lfischer@utexas.edu (Lisa Fischer)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Jul18.013041.6945@earthlink.net>, jmoreau@earthlink.net (Jen Moreau) writes:
> Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes.

I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there.

Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin!

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Lisa Fischer -- University of Texas at Austin
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From meriksson@inria.fr Thu Jul 20 07:48:41 1995
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From: meriksson@inria.fr (Mateo Eriksson)
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Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Jul19.002941.8875@utexas.edu>, lfischer@utexas.edu (Lisa Fischer) writes:
> I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there.

The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova.

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Mateo Eriksson
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