From asantos@demon.co.uk Mon Jul 17 07:13:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!demon!asantos From: asantos@demon.co.uk (Anton Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul17.071318.9332@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 07:13:18 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Anton Santos Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ ISDN 64k bps "Marcus is not one man." From dgarcia@kth.se Wed Jul 19 03:15:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kth!dgarcia From: dgarcia@kth.se (Dmitri García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul19.031518.1313@kth.se> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 03:15:18 GMT References: <1995Jul17.071318.9332@demon.co.uk> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jul17.071318.9332@demon.co.uk>, asantos@demon.co.uk (Anton Santos) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Dmitri García Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mweber@cmu.edu Fri Jul 21 05:52:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cmu!mweber From: mweber@cmu.edu (Morag Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul21.055218.3481@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 05:52:18 GMT References: <1995Jul17.071318.9332@demon.co.uk> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul17.071318.9332@demon.co.uk>, asantos@demon.co.uk (Anton Santos) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Morag Weber | mweber@cmu.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 0124 1263 34D1 858A "Keep the channels open."