From vfournier@cern.ch Thu Sep 26 17:27:41 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cern!vfournier From: vfournier@cern.ch (Valeria Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Sep26.172741.2776@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 17:27:41 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. 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? -- Valeria Fournier *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From hkarlsson@delphi.com Sat Sep 28 08:59:41 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!delphi!hkarlsson From: hkarlsson@delphi.com (Heather Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Sep28.085941.1769@delphi.com> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 08:59:41 GMT References: <1996Sep26.172741.2776@cern.ch> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Sep26.172741.2776@cern.ch>, vfournier@cern.ch (Valeria Fournier) 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. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Heather Karlsson -- Delphi Internet Services "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."