From msanchez@stanford.edu Wed Jun 07 11:19:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!stanford!msanchez From: msanchez@stanford.edu (Matthias Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun07.111919.4807@stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 11:19:19 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu 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. 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? -- Matthias Sánchez SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From emuller@inria.fr Thu Jun 08 17:38:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!inria!emuller From: emuller@inria.fr (Emi Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun08.173819.7425@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 17:38:19 GMT References: <1995Jun07.111919.4807@stanford.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jun07.111919.4807@stanford.edu>, msanchez@stanford.edu (Matthias Sánchez) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Emi Müller "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / FreeBSD 2.1 From mjohansson@kiae.su Thu Jun 08 21:18:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kiae!mjohansson From: mjohansson@kiae.su (Mathieu Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun08.211819.6913@kiae.su> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 21:18:19 GMT References: <1995Jun07.111919.4807@stanford.edu> <1995Jun08.173819.7425@inria.fr> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun08.173819.7425@inria.fr>, emuller@inria.fr (Emi Müller) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. > Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Mathieu Johansson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.