From bmacdonald@purdue.edu Thu Jul 20 17:33:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!purdue!bmacdonald From: bmacdonald@purdue.edu (Bruno MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul20.173333.6345@purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 17:33:33 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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. -- Bruno MacDonald -- Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From agonzalez@rwth-aachen.de Sat Jul 22 07:49:33 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!rwth-aachen!agonzalez From: agonzalez@rwth-aachen.de (Astrid González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul22.074933.3270@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 07:49:33 GMT References: <1995Jul20.173333.6345@purdue.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jul20.173333.6345@purdue.edu>, bmacdonald@purdue.edu (Bruno MacDonald) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. 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. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Astrid González *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0