From aperez@earthlink.net Tue Jan 04 02:59:15 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!earthlink!aperez From: aperez@earthlink.net (Astrid Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan04.025915.4340@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 1994 02:59:15 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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? -- Astrid Pérez "Do not worship the copy." Macintosh IIfx / SunOS 4.1.4 From thughes@purdue.edu Wed Jan 05 15:18:15 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!purdue!thughes From: thughes@purdue.edu (Thiago Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan05.151815.7869@purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 1994 15:18:15 GMT References: <1994Jan04.025915.4340@earthlink.net> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan04.025915.4340@earthlink.net>, aperez@earthlink.net (Astrid Pérez) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. -- Thiago Hughes *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0 From lsanchez@tum.de Wed Jan 05 17:07:15 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!lsanchez From: lsanchez@tum.de (Liam Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan05.170715.1353@tum.de> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 1994 17:07:15 GMT References: <1994Jan04.025915.4340@earthlink.net> <1994Jan05.151815.7869@purdue.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan05.151815.7869@purdue.edu>, thughes@purdue.edu (Thiago Hughes) 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. 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. -- Liam Sánchez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Technische Universität München. ------------------------------------------------------------ From spetrov@berkeley.edu Thu Jan 06 12:55:15 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!berkeley!spetrov From: spetrov@berkeley.edu (Sun-mi Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan06.125515.5248@berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 1994 12:55:15 GMT References: <1994Jan04.025915.4340@earthlink.net> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan04.025915.4340@earthlink.net>, aperez@earthlink.net (Astrid Pérez) 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. 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. -- Sun-mi Petrov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.