From aoliveira@berkeley.edu Sun Feb 25 13:43:22 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!berkeley!aoliveira From: aoliveira@berkeley.edu (Anja Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Feb25.134322.8287@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 13:43:22 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Anja Oliveira Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ ISDN 64k bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From msilva@berkeley.edu Mon Feb 26 04:52:22 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!berkeley!msilva From: msilva@berkeley.edu (Marta Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Feb26.045222.8930@berkeley.edu> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 04:52:22 GMT References: <1996Feb25.134322.8287@berkeley.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1996Feb25.134322.8287@berkeley.edu>, aoliveira@berkeley.edu (Anja Oliveira) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Marta Silva Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.