From cbrennan@uni-hamburg.de Tue Sep 26 07:15:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uni-hamburg!cbrennan From: cbrennan@uni-hamburg.de (Callum Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep26.071519.4230@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 07:15:19 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Callum Brennan Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mmartinez@utexas.edu Tue Sep 26 16:29:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!utexas!mmartinez From: mmartinez@utexas.edu (Mathieu Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep26.162919.7430@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 16:29:19 GMT References: <1995Sep26.071519.4230@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Sep26.071519.4230@uni-hamburg.de>, cbrennan@uni-hamburg.de (Callum Brennan) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Mathieu Martínez | mmartinez@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 132B 0683 FB8E CB9C "Keep the channels open." From kkang@uu.net Wed Sep 27 04:25:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!uu!kkang From: kkang@uu.net (Katrin Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep27.042519.5377@uu.net> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 04:25:19 GMT References: <1995Sep26.071519.4230@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep26.071519.4230@uni-hamburg.de>, cbrennan@uni-hamburg.de (Callum Brennan) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Katrin Kang -- UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "Do not worship the copy." From mchoi@titech.ac.jp Thu Sep 28 23:43:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!titech!mchoi From: mchoi@titech.ac.jp (Mike Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep28.234319.8321@titech.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 23:43:19 GMT References: <1995Sep26.071519.4230@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep26.071519.4230@uni-hamburg.de>, cbrennan@uni-hamburg.de (Callum Brennan) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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. -- Mike Choi SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 14,400 bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."