From kmacdonald@uu.net Thu Jun 15 22:06:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uu!kmacdonald From: kmacdonald@uu.net (Katrin MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun15.220642.2157@uu.net> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 22:06:42 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- === Katrin MacDonald === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From nsilva@utexas.edu Sat Jun 17 08:56:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!utexas!nsilva From: nsilva@utexas.edu (Nadine Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun17.085642.1674@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 08:56:42 GMT References: <1995Jun15.220642.2157@uu.net> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun15.220642.2157@uu.net>, kmacdonald@uu.net (Katrin MacDonald) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Nadine Silva "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." NeXTstation Turbo Color / SunOS 4.1.4 From awatanabe@netcom.com Sun Jun 18 22:21:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!netcom!awatanabe From: awatanabe@netcom.com (Anja Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun18.222142.2945@netcom.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 22:21:42 GMT References: <1995Jun15.220642.2157@uu.net> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun15.220642.2157@uu.net>, kmacdonald@uu.net (Katrin MacDonald) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- === Anja Watanabe === Dept of Electrical Engineering, NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "Hold for relay."