From moliveira@purdue.edu Wed Jan 18 21:39:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!purdue!moliveira From: moliveira@purdue.edu (Marta Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan18.213921.9505@purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 21:39:21 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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? -- === Marta Oliveira === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Engineering Computer Network "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From jtakahashi@utexas.edu Thu Jan 19 05:32:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!utexas!jtakahashi From: jtakahashi@utexas.edu (Ji-woo Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan19.053221.2166@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 05:32:21 GMT References: <1995Jan18.213921.9505@purdue.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jan18.213921.9505@purdue.edu>, moliveira@purdue.edu (Marta Oliveira) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Ji-woo Takahashi | jtakahashi@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 4B12 FDA1 A751 F002 "Keep the channels open." From kokonkwo@berkeley.edu Sat Jan 21 01:41:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!berkeley!kokonkwo From: kokonkwo@berkeley.edu (Kenji Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan21.014121.7243@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 01:41:21 GMT References: <1995Jan18.213921.9505@purdue.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jan18.213921.9505@purdue.edu>, moliveira@purdue.edu (Marta Oliveira) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Kenji Okonkwo "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / FreeBSD 2.1 From ahughes@purdue.edu Sat Jan 21 15:42:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!purdue!ahughes From: ahughes@purdue.edu (Amy Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan21.154221.9832@purdue.edu> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 15:42:21 GMT References: <1995Jan18.213921.9505@purdue.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Jan18.213921.9505@purdue.edu>, moliveira@purdue.edu (Marta Oliveira) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. 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. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Amy Hughes SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From llarsson@uu.net Mon Jan 23 19:22:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uu!llarsson From: llarsson@uu.net (Lucia Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan23.192221.2971@uu.net> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 19:22:21 GMT References: <1995Jan18.213921.9505@purdue.edu> <1995Jan21.154221.9832@purdue.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan21.154221.9832@purdue.edu>, ahughes@purdue.edu (Amy Hughes) writes: > 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Lucia Larsson "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / System 7.5.1