From ewatanabe@stanford.edu Thu Mar 14 08:34:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!stanford!ewatanabe From: ewatanabe@stanford.edu (Emi Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Mar14.083434.7195@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:34:34 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 I spent last night testing the 14.2x time-stretch claim on track 2 using a 16-bit Sound Blaster transfer. It doesn't sound like Nova. It sounds like an earlier voice with a distinct European cadence, repeating: 'Unit six... core wipe incomplete.' In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. Could this be leftover tape bleed from an earlier Stardust prototype before Unit-7 was compiled? -- Emi Watanabe *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From mito@cam.ac.uk Fri Mar 15 18:19:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cam!mito From: mito@cam.ac.uk (Morag Ito) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Mar15.181934.8090@cam.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 18:19:34 GMT References: <1996Mar14.083434.7195@stanford.edu> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar14.083434.7195@stanford.edu>, ewatanabe@stanford.edu (Emi Watanabe) 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. -- Morag Ito "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Acorn RiscPC 600 / TOS 4.04 From plopez@pipeline.com Sat Mar 16 08:11:34 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!pipeline!plopez From: plopez@pipeline.com (Pavel López) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1996Mar16.081134.4493@pipeline.com> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 08:11:34 GMT References: <1996Mar14.083434.7195@stanford.edu> <1996Mar15.181934.8090@cam.ac.uk> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar15.181934.8090@cam.ac.uk>, mito@cam.ac.uk (Morag Ito) 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. -- Pavel López | plopez@pipeline.com PGP Key fingerprint: AAA2 7699 43CC 8111 "Keep the channels open."