From nsantos@purdue.edu Sat Apr 01 09:20:24 1995
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From: nsantos@purdue.edu (Nadine Santos)
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Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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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.
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?

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Nadine Santos
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From chernandez@stanford.edu Sun Apr 02 08:00:24 1995
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From: chernandez@stanford.edu (Callum Hernández)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Apr01.092024.1359@purdue.edu>, nsantos@purdue.edu (Nadine Santos) 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.

The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model.

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=== Callum Hernández ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Computer Systems Lab
"Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."

From lkarlsson@stanford.edu Tue Apr 04 00:43:24 1995
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From: lkarlsson@stanford.edu (Lars Karlsson)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Apr01.092024.1359@purdue.edu>, nsantos@purdue.edu (Nadine Santos) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

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.

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Lars Karlsson
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Stanford University Computer Systems Lab.
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From tcampbell@kiae.su Tue Apr 04 03:06:24 1995
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From: tcampbell@kiae.su (Tyler Campbell)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Apr02.080024.5771@stanford.edu>, chernandez@stanford.edu (Callum Hernández) writes:
> The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model.

Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'

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=== Tyler Campbell ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow
"They will send a copy in my place."