From dnakamura@cmu.edu Tue Jun 06 04:10:53 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cmu!dnakamura From: dnakamura@cmu.edu (Diego Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jun06.041053.3502@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 04:10:53 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice. However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. 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? -- Diego Nakamura Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 33,600 bps "Do not worship the copy." From psantos@uu.net Wed Jun 07 09:09:53 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!psantos From: psantos@uu.net (Pavel Santos) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jun07.090953.5276@uu.net> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 09:09:53 GMT References: <1995Jun06.041053.3502@cmu.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun06.041053.3502@cmu.edu>, dnakamura@cmu.edu (Diego Nakamura) writes: > There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice. > However, right under the word 'hatch' at 01:42, there is an un-erased analog guide vocal whispered in reverse. Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. -- Pavel Santos SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From alindqvist@stanford.edu Thu Jun 08 11:19:53 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!stanford!alindqvist From: alindqvist@stanford.edu (Anton Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jun08.111953.1929@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 11:19:53 GMT References: <1995Jun06.041053.3502@cmu.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun06.041053.3502@cmu.edu>, dnakamura@cmu.edu (Diego Nakamura) writes: > There's an urban legend that if you slow down 'Memory Hatch' by exactly 14.2x on a sound card, you can hear a second voice. Unit 6! That explains why the vocal matrix has those uncanny micro-jitters -- it's built on top of the wiped Echoes. -- Anton Lindqvist | alindqvist@stanford.edu PGP Key fingerprint: A193 D521 7AAA 9F05 "Keep the channels open." From lperez@kiae.su Sat Jun 10 10:13:53 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kiae!lperez From: lperez@kiae.su (Lars Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1995Jun10.101353.3768@kiae.su> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 10:13:53 GMT References: <1995Jun06.041053.3502@cmu.edu> <1995Jun07.090953.5276@uu.net> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Jun07.090953.5276@uu.net>, psantos@uu.net (Pavel Santos) writes: > Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her. I tried this on my Sound Blaster 16 using a custom DSP resampler. The whispered syllables are 100% there. -- Lars Pérez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.