From lmoreno@illinois.edu Fri May 05 03:32:20 1995
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From: lmoreno@illinois.edu (Lucia Moreno)
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Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.
Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.

How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation?

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Lucia Moreno -- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995May05.033220.1707@illinois.edu>, lmoreno@illinois.edu (Lucia Moreno) writes:
> Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis.

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