From mivanov@hanse.de Wed May 11 11:10:03 1994
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From: mivanov@hanse.de (Mei Ivanov)
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Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.
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?

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Mei Ivanov -- Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg
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From srodriguez@ox.ac.uk Thu May 12 14:16:03 1994
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From: srodriguez@ox.ac.uk (Sergei Rodríguez)
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Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994May11.111003.3118@hanse.de>, mivanov@hanse.de (Mei Ivanov) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.
> Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.

It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip.

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From: kdubois@kiae.su (Kirsty Dubois)
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Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994May11.111003.3118@hanse.de>, mivanov@hanse.de (Mei Ivanov) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.
> Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.

It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip.

-- 
Kirsty Dubois -- Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow
"The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."