From elarsson@clari.net Wed May 24 14:40:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!clari!elarsson From: elarsson@clari.net (Emi Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May24.144051.9619@clari.net> Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 14:40:51 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Emi Larsson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Do not worship the copy." From bdubois@purdue.edu Thu May 25 20:10:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!purdue!bdubois From: bdubois@purdue.edu (Brian Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May25.201051.1512@purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 20:10:51 GMT References: <1995May24.144051.9619@clari.net> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995May24.144051.9619@clari.net>, elarsson@clari.net (Emi Larsson) 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. 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. -- Brian Dubois -- Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."