From lkarlsson@cern.ch Fri May 26 15:03:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cern!lkarlsson From: lkarlsson@cern.ch (Lisa Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May26.150312.7867@cern.ch> Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 15:03:12 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Lisa Karlsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From gmacdonald@earthlink.net Sat May 27 12:11:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!earthlink!gmacdonald From: gmacdonald@earthlink.net (Göran MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May27.121112.8054@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 12:11:12 GMT References: <1995May26.150312.7867@cern.ch> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995May26.150312.7867@cern.ch>, lkarlsson@cern.ch (Lisa Karlsson) writes: > 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Göran MacDonald -- EarthLink Network "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From jokonkwo@earthlink.net Mon May 29 06:14:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!earthlink!jokonkwo From: jokonkwo@earthlink.net (Joachim Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May29.061412.3651@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 06:14:12 GMT References: <1995May26.150312.7867@cern.ch> <1995May27.121112.8054@earthlink.net> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995May27.121112.8054@earthlink.net>, gmacdonald@earthlink.net (Göran MacDonald) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. 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. -- Joachim Okonkwo -- EarthLink Network "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From hsilva@uni-hamburg.de Mon May 29 22:52:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uni-hamburg!hsilva From: hsilva@uni-hamburg.de (Hana Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May29.225212.2454@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 22:52:12 GMT References: <1995May26.150312.7867@cern.ch> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995May26.150312.7867@cern.ch>, lkarlsson@cern.ch (Lisa Karlsson) 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. -- Hana Silva "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / AmigaOS 3.1 From bsouza@clari.net Tue May 30 09:34:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!clari!bsouza From: bsouza@clari.net (Bruno Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May30.093412.8835@clari.net> Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 09:34:12 GMT References: <1995May26.150312.7867@cern.ch> <1995May27.121112.8054@earthlink.net> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995May27.121112.8054@earthlink.net>, gmacdonald@earthlink.net (Göran MacDonald) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Bruno Souza -- ClariNet Communications Corp "Row 14. No joke."