From asmirnov@delphi.com Mon Feb 07 22:32:29 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!delphi!asmirnov From: asmirnov@delphi.com (Astrid Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb07.223229.3026@delphi.com> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 1994 22:32:29 GMT Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Astrid Smirnov "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Acorn RiscPC 600 / SunOS 4.1.4 From rkim@cam.ac.uk Wed Feb 09 15:14:29 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cam!rkim From: rkim@cam.ac.uk (Raj Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb09.151429.1259@cam.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 1994 15:14:29 GMT References: <1994Feb07.223229.3026@delphi.com> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb07.223229.3026@delphi.com>, asmirnov@delphi.com (Astrid Smirnov) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Raj Kim *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From mlaurent@netcom.com Thu Feb 10 00:59:29 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!netcom!mlaurent From: mlaurent@netcom.com (Min-jun Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb10.005929.3927@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 00:59:29 GMT References: <1994Feb07.223229.3026@delphi.com> <1994Feb09.151429.1259@cam.ac.uk> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb09.151429.1259@cam.ac.uk>, rkim@cam.ac.uk (Raj Kim) writes: > If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Min-jun Laurent | mlaurent@netcom.com PGP Key fingerprint: 3DF3 D6F8 1671 30A7 "Keep the channels open." From olarsson@cern.ch Thu Feb 10 14:34:29 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cern!olarsson From: olarsson@cern.ch (Olga Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb10.143429.3752@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 14:34:29 GMT References: <1994Feb07.223229.3026@delphi.com> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1994Feb07.223229.3026@delphi.com>, asmirnov@delphi.com (Astrid Smirnov) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Olga Larsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva. ------------------------------------------------------------ From tlarsson@cmu.edu Fri Feb 11 05:05:29 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cmu!tlarsson From: tlarsson@cmu.edu (Tyler Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Feb11.050529.6486@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 05:05:29 GMT References: <1994Feb07.223229.3026@delphi.com> <1994Feb10.143429.3752@cern.ch> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Feb10.143429.3752@cern.ch>, olarsson@cern.ch (Olga Larsson) writes: > The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. > Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Tyler Larsson | tlarsson@cmu.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 8DB4 7831 1BF6 B589 "Keep the channels open."