From gnovak@cmu.edu Sun Nov 20 03:23:29 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cmu!gnovak From: gnovak@cmu.edu (Göran Novak) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Nov20.032329.1903@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 03:23:29 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 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. When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band. In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials. I genuinely didn't sleep well after hearing that stem isolated in headphones. -- Göran Novak Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From icampbell@clari.net Mon Nov 21 17:39:29 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!clari!icampbell From: icampbell@clari.net (Ines Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality Message-ID: <1994Nov21.173929.8599@clari.net> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 17:39:29 GMT References: <1994Nov20.032329.1903@cmu.edu> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov20.032329.1903@cmu.edu>, gnovak@cmu.edu (Göran Novak) 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. -- Ines Campbell Zyxel U-1496E @ 33,600 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology."