From lfischer@inria.fr Wed Mar 08 16:23:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!inria!lfischer From: lfischer@inria.fr (Liam Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar08.162315.3412@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 16:23:15 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Liam Fischer Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From kbrennan@kth.se Fri Mar 10 16:03:15 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!kth!kbrennan From: kbrennan@kth.se (Karen Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar10.160315.5590@kth.se> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 16:03:15 GMT References: <1995Mar08.162315.3412@inria.fr> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar08.162315.3412@inria.fr>, lfischer@inria.fr (Liam Fischer) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Karen Brennan | kbrennan@kth.se PGP Key fingerprint: 6337 F846 C5BB A04A "Keep the channels open."