From msouza@mindspring.com Sun Dec 08 16:47:42 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mindspring!msouza From: msouza@mindspring.com (Marisol Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Dec08.164742.9139@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 16:47:42 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 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. 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? -- Marisol Souza Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mnakamura@ox.ac.uk Mon Dec 09 09:05:42 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!ox!mnakamura From: mnakamura@ox.ac.uk (Marta Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Dec09.090542.4353@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 09:05:42 GMT References: <1996Dec08.164742.9139@mindspring.com> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1996Dec08.164742.9139@mindspring.com>, msouza@mindspring.com (Marisol Souza) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Marta Nakamura -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From sfournier@hanse.de Tue Dec 10 17:21:42 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!hanse!sfournier From: sfournier@hanse.de (Sun-mi Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Dec10.172142.5620@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:21:42 GMT References: <1996Dec08.164742.9139@mindspring.com> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec08.164742.9139@mindspring.com>, msouza@mindspring.com (Marisol Souza) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Sun-mi Fournier SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."