From hito@earthlink.net Wed Jan 12 23:05:12 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!earthlink!hito From: hito@earthlink.net (Heather Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan12.230512.9156@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 23:05:12 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Heather Ito Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of EarthLink Network. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mschneider@utexas.edu Fri Jan 14 22:42:12 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!mschneider From: mschneider@utexas.edu (Matthias Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan14.224212.7308@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 22:42:12 GMT References: <1994Jan12.230512.9156@earthlink.net> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1994Jan12.230512.9156@earthlink.net>, hito@earthlink.net (Heather Ito) 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Matthias Schneider | mschneider@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 55A0 7F29 112F E0CF "Keep the channels open." From tstewart@cern.ch Sat Jan 15 15:44:12 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cern!tstewart From: tstewart@cern.ch (Thiago Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan15.154412.9853@cern.ch> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 1994 15:44:12 GMT References: <1994Jan12.230512.9156@earthlink.net> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Jan12.230512.9156@earthlink.net>, hito@earthlink.net (Heather Ito) 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. -- Thiago Stewart "When every node is whole, the channel opens." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / System 7.5.1 From mgarcia@mit.edu Sun Jan 16 16:46:12 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mit!mgarcia From: mgarcia@mit.edu (Mei García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan16.164612.3825@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 1994 16:46:12 GMT References: <1994Jan12.230512.9156@earthlink.net> <1994Jan15.154412.9853@cern.ch> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan15.154412.9853@cern.ch>, tstewart@cern.ch (Thiago Stewart) 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. 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. -- Mei García "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Amiga 3000T / SunOS 4.1.4