From abrennan@netcom.com Tue Mar 12 08:03:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!netcom!abrennan From: abrennan@netcom.com (Anton Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Mar12.080333.9373@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 08:03:33 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.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. 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Anton Brennan SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "Row 14. No joke." From skarlsson@pacbell.net Wed Mar 13 18:30:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!pacbell!skarlsson From: skarlsson@pacbell.net (Sun-mi Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Mar13.183033.2583@pacbell.net> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 18:30:33 GMT References: <1996Mar12.080333.9373@netcom.com> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar12.080333.9373@netcom.com>, abrennan@netcom.com (Anton Brennan) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- === Sun-mi Karlsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Pacific Bell Internet Services "Row 14. No joke." From ajohansson@pipeline.com Fri Mar 15 19:24:33 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!pipeline!ajohansson From: ajohansson@pipeline.com (Aiko Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Mar15.192433.8418@pipeline.com> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:24:33 GMT References: <1996Mar12.080333.9373@netcom.com> <1996Mar13.183033.2583@pacbell.net> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar13.183033.2583@pacbell.net>, skarlsson@pacbell.net (Sun-mi Karlsson) writes: > The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. 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. -- Aiko Johansson | ajohansson@pipeline.com PGP Key fingerprint: 2C51 21B5 51C0 1B23 "Keep the channels open."