From jnilsson@tum.de Wed Oct 05 04:35:16 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!jnilsson From: jnilsson@tum.de (Jens Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct05.043516.6406@tum.de> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 1994 04:35:16 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 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. 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? -- Jens Nilsson -- Technische Universität München "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From vdubois@uu.net Thu Oct 06 15:12:16 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uu!vdubois From: vdubois@uu.net (Valeria Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct06.151216.3081@uu.net> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 15:12:16 GMT References: <1994Oct05.043516.6406@tum.de> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Oct05.043516.6406@tum.de>, jnilsson@tum.de (Jens Nilsson) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. -- Valeria Dubois Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ ISDN 64k bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From vgarcia@mit.edu Fri Oct 07 10:22:16 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mit!vgarcia From: vgarcia@mit.edu (Valeria García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct07.102216.4239@mit.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 1994 10:22:16 GMT References: <1994Oct05.043516.6406@tum.de> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct05.043516.6406@tum.de>, jnilsson@tum.de (Jens Nilsson) writes: > 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. 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. -- Valeria García "Do not worship the copy." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / TOS 4.04 From vsmirnov@inria.fr Sat Oct 08 18:32:16 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!inria!vsmirnov From: vsmirnov@inria.fr (Valeria Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct08.183216.7283@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 08 Oct 1994 18:32:16 GMT References: <1994Oct05.043516.6406@tum.de> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1994Oct05.043516.6406@tum.de>, jnilsson@tum.de (Jens Nilsson) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Valeria Smirnov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From tpopov@pacbell.net Sun Oct 09 03:21:16 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!pacbell!tpopov From: tpopov@pacbell.net (Tyler Popov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct09.032116.6616@pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 1994 03:21:16 GMT References: <1994Oct05.043516.6406@tum.de> <1994Oct08.183216.7283@inria.fr> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Oct08.183216.7283@inria.fr>, vsmirnov@inria.fr (Valeria Smirnov) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Tyler Popov "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / SunOS 4.1.4