From dlarsson@inria.fr Thu Sep 19 16:58:01 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!inria!dlarsson From: dlarsson@inria.fr (Dmitri Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Sep19.165801.5640@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 16:58:01 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Dmitri Larsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From dstewart@delphi.com Fri Sep 20 21:54:01 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!delphi!dstewart From: dstewart@delphi.com (Dong-hyun Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Sep20.215401.2522@delphi.com> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 21:54:01 GMT References: <1996Sep19.165801.5640@inria.fr> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Sep19.165801.5640@inria.fr>, dlarsson@inria.fr (Dmitri Larsson) 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. -- Dong-hyun Stewart Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Delphi Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------