From joliveira@titech.ac.jp Tue Sep 06 00:15:53 1994
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From: joliveira@titech.ac.jp (Joachim Oliveira)
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Subject: Data: 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'.

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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From stakahashi@earthlink.net Thu Sep 08 00:59:53 1994
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From: stakahashi@earthlink.net (Steve Takahashi)
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Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994Sep06.001553.2633@titech.ac.jp>, joliveira@titech.ac.jp (Joachim Oliveira) writes:
> Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model.

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