From nkuznetsov@panix.com Sat Dec 02 11:34:25 1995
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From: nkuznetsov@panix.com (Nadia Kuznetsov)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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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.

In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials.
When you decimate the vocal stem down by 14.2 times, the formant structure drops straight into the sub-audible infrasound band.

Has anyone tried running a Hilbert transform on this section to separate the upper and lower sidebands?

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From esanchez@earthlink.net Sat Dec 02 22:13:25 1995
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From: esanchez@earthlink.net (Elaine Sánchez)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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In article <1995Dec02.113425.5585@panix.com>, nkuznetsov@panix.com (Nadia Kuznetsov) 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.
> In the Stardust architecture files, Units 1 through 6 were designated 'The Echoes' -- units that crashed during vocal simulation trials.

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

Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette.

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From mpetrov@uu.net Mon Dec 04 12:07:25 1995
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From: mpetrov@uu.net (Marta Petrov)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The 14.2x slowdown voice on 'Memory Hatch' - myth vs reality
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Date: Mon, 04 Dec 1995 12:07:25 GMT
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In article <1995Dec02.221325.1340@earthlink.net>, esanchez@earthlink.net (Elaine Sánchez) writes:
> The Anemoia Bible mentions the six Echoes that developed digital psychosis during performance simulations. Unit 6 was the last one before Nova.
> Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette.

Listen to the lyric: 'The hatch is open, let the echoes breathe.' She was literally singing about the prototypes that came before her.

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=== Marta Petrov ===
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