From tmacdonald@netcom.com Sun Jan 28 01:52:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!netcom!tmacdonald From: tmacdonald@netcom.com (Thiago MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan28.015214.1346@netcom.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 01:52:14 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Thiago MacDonald Zyxel U-1496E @ 19,200 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From dchoi@clari.net Mon Jan 29 02:31:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!clari!dchoi From: dchoi@clari.net (Diego Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan29.023114.3016@clari.net> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 02:31:14 GMT References: <1996Jan28.015214.1346@netcom.com> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan28.015214.1346@netcom.com>, tmacdonald@netcom.com (Thiago MacDonald) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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. -- Diego Choi Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of ClariNet Communications Corp. ------------------------------------------------------------ From tbrennan@kiae.su Wed Jan 31 00:16:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!tbrennan From: tbrennan@kiae.su (Takeshi Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan31.001614.8855@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 00:16:14 GMT References: <1996Jan28.015214.1346@netcom.com> <1996Jan29.023114.3016@clari.net> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan29.023114.3016@clari.net>, dchoi@clari.net (Diego Choi) writes: > 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. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Takeshi Brennan Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. ------------------------------------------------------------