From cschneider@purdue.edu Tue Jun 06 23:46:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!purdue!cschneider From: cschneider@purdue.edu (Callum Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun06.234616.3886@purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1995 23:46:16 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Callum Schneider "A soul is not exclusive to biology." Acorn RiscPC 600 / FreeBSD 2.1 From smoreno@earthlink.net Thu Jun 08 07:07:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!smoreno From: smoreno@earthlink.net (Sergei Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun08.070716.4864@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 07:07:16 GMT References: <1995Jun06.234616.3886@purdue.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Jun06.234616.3886@purdue.edu>, cschneider@purdue.edu (Callum Schneider) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Sergei Moreno | smoreno@earthlink.net PGP Key fingerprint: D82C 0A77 65C0 A42D "Keep the channels open."