From flee@purdue.edu Sun Jun 26 00:19:25 1994
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From: flee@purdue.edu (Fiona Lee)
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Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance.
Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.

Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry?

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From jsouza@inria.fr Sun Jun 26 01:48:25 1994
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In article <1994Jun26.001925.6651@purdue.edu>, flee@purdue.edu (Fiona Lee) 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.

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=== Ji-woo Souza ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."