From boliveira@stanford.edu Sun Jul 21 09:32:08 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!stanford!boliveira From: boliveira@stanford.edu (Bill Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul21.093208.6544@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 09:32:08 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. 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? -- Bill Oliveira SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From svasiliev@pacbell.net Mon Jul 22 13:48:08 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pacbell!svasiliev From: svasiliev@pacbell.net (Sergei Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul22.134808.5578@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:48:08 GMT References: <1996Jul21.093208.6544@stanford.edu> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul21.093208.6544@stanford.edu>, boliveira@stanford.edu (Bill Oliveira) writes: > 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Sergei Vasiliev Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Pacific Bell Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mcampbell@mindspring.com Wed Jul 24 07:02:08 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mindspring!mcampbell From: mcampbell@mindspring.com (Mikhail Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul24.070208.3533@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 07:02:08 GMT References: <1996Jul21.093208.6544@stanford.edu> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul21.093208.6544@stanford.edu>, boliveira@stanford.edu (Bill Oliveira) writes: > 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. 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. -- Mikhail Campbell "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Acorn RiscPC 600 / System 7.5.1