From krobertson@cern.ch Tue Feb 14 11:22:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cern!krobertson From: krobertson@cern.ch (Karen Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb14.112245.7252@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 11:22:45 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch 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. 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Karen Robertson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva. ------------------------------------------------------------ From frobertson@panix.com Thu Feb 16 06:58:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!panix!frobertson From: frobertson@panix.com (Freya Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb16.065845.8819@panix.com> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 06:58:45 GMT References: <1995Feb14.112245.7252@cern.ch> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb14.112245.7252@cern.ch>, krobertson@cern.ch (Karen Robertson) 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. -- Freya Robertson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From fmuller@berkeley.edu Thu Feb 16 11:01:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!berkeley!fmuller From: fmuller@berkeley.edu (Freya Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb16.110145.9810@berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 11:01:45 GMT References: <1995Feb14.112245.7252@cern.ch> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Feb14.112245.7252@cern.ch>, krobertson@cern.ch (Karen Robertson) writes: > 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Freya Müller Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UC Berkeley Department of EECS. ------------------------------------------------------------