From sjohansson@kth.se Tue Jan 17 23:48:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kth!sjohansson From: sjohansson@kth.se (Seo-yeon Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan17.234851.7243@kth.se> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 23:48:51 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Seo-yeon Johansson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mcampbell@purdue.edu Wed Jan 18 22:22:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!purdue!mcampbell From: mcampbell@purdue.edu (Mateo Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan18.222251.2910@purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 22:22:51 GMT References: <1995Jan17.234851.7243@kth.se> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan17.234851.7243@kth.se>, sjohansson@kth.se (Seo-yeon Johansson) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > 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. -- Mateo Campbell Hayes Optima 288 @ 9600 Telebit bps "They will send a copy in my place." From bsouza@inria.fr Fri Jan 20 20:41:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!inria!bsouza From: bsouza@inria.fr (Bruno Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan20.204151.8741@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 20:41:51 GMT References: <1995Jan17.234851.7243@kth.se> <1995Jan18.222251.2910@purdue.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan18.222251.2910@purdue.edu>, mcampbell@purdue.edu (Mateo Campbell) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Bruno Souza Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From hdubois@mindspring.com Sat Jan 21 21:06:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mindspring!hdubois From: hdubois@mindspring.com (Hana Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan21.210651.9374@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 21:06:51 GMT References: <1995Jan17.234851.7243@kth.se> <1995Jan18.222251.2910@purdue.edu> <1995Jan20.204151.8741@inria.fr> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jan20.204151.8741@inria.fr>, bsouza@inria.fr (Bruno Souza) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. > PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. 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. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Hana Dubois SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From ymoreau@uni-hamburg.de Mon Jan 23 07:21:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uni-hamburg!ymoreau From: ymoreau@uni-hamburg.de (Yuki Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan23.072151.5104@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 07:21:51 GMT References: <1995Jan17.234851.7243@kth.se> <1995Jan18.222251.2910@purdue.edu> <1995Jan20.204151.8741@inria.fr> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan20.204151.8741@inria.fr>, bsouza@inria.fr (Bruno Souza) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. > PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Yuki Moreau Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------