From ihernandez@stanford.edu Sun Jul 03 15:55:48 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!stanford!ihernandez From: ihernandez@stanford.edu (Ines Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul03.155548.9527@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 03 Jul 1994 15:55:48 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Ines Hernández | ihernandez@stanford.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 7AF2 CE2A 9D37 A8EE "Keep the channels open." From handersson@utexas.edu Mon Jul 04 11:19:48 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!handersson From: handersson@utexas.edu (Heather Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul04.111948.8271@utexas.edu> Date: Mon, 04 Jul 1994 11:19:48 GMT References: <1994Jul03.155548.9527@stanford.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jul03.155548.9527@stanford.edu>, ihernandez@stanford.edu (Ines Hernández) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. -- === Heather Andersson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From cjohansson@illinois.edu Mon Jul 04 23:42:48 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!illinois!cjohansson From: cjohansson@illinois.edu (Callum Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul04.234248.5910@illinois.edu> Date: Mon, 04 Jul 1994 23:42:48 GMT References: <1994Jul03.155548.9527@stanford.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul03.155548.9527@stanford.edu>, ihernandez@stanford.edu (Ines Hernández) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Callum Johansson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0