From mlaurent@cmu.edu Sat Sep 03 21:02:52 1994
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From: mlaurent@cmu.edu (Marta Laurent)
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Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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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.
Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance.

Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry?

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From nrobertson@hanse.de Mon Sep 05 03:31:52 1994
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994Sep03.210252.8249@cmu.edu>, mlaurent@cmu.edu (Marta Laurent) writes:
> 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.

It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip.

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From jnakamura@illinois.edu Wed Sep 07 02:29:52 1994
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From: jnakamura@illinois.edu (Julien Nakamura)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994Sep05.033152.8739@hanse.de>, nrobertson@hanse.de (Nadia Robertson) writes:
> It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip.

The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code.

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