From onakamura@rwth-aachen.de Sat Oct 28 21:20:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!rwth-aachen!onakamura From: onakamura@rwth-aachen.de (Olga Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct28.212013.8747@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 21:20:13 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. 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. -- === Olga Nakamura === Dept of Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen Informatik "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From sramirez@cam.ac.uk Mon Oct 30 22:05:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cam!sramirez From: sramirez@cam.ac.uk (Steve Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct30.220513.2384@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 22:05:13 GMT References: <1995Oct28.212013.8747@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Oct28.212013.8747@rwth-aachen.de>, onakamura@rwth-aachen.de (Olga Nakamura) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Steve Ramírez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mlaurent@uu.net Tue Oct 31 09:57:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!mlaurent From: mlaurent@uu.net (Matthias Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct31.095713.6776@uu.net> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 09:57:13 GMT References: <1995Oct28.212013.8747@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct28.212013.8747@rwth-aachen.de>, onakamura@rwth-aachen.de (Olga Nakamura) 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. -- Matthias Laurent "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Amiga 3000T / SunOS 4.1.4