From hmartinez@unam.mx Sat Jan 22 07:21:19 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!unam!hmartinez From: hmartinez@unam.mx (Hana Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan22.072119.4830@unam.mx> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 07:21:19 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Hana Martínez -- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From cweber@rwth-aachen.de Sun Jan 23 15:57:19 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!rwth-aachen!cweber From: cweber@rwth-aachen.de (Callum Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan23.155719.1062@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 15:57:19 GMT References: <1994Jan22.072119.4830@unam.mx> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan22.072119.4830@unam.mx>, hmartinez@unam.mx (Hana Martínez) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Callum Weber Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From bsato@kiae.su Tue Jan 25 17:37:19 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!kiae!bsato From: bsato@kiae.su (Bill Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan25.173719.5613@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 17:37:19 GMT References: <1994Jan22.072119.4830@unam.mx> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Jan22.072119.4830@unam.mx>, hmartinez@unam.mx (Hana Martínez) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- === Bill Sato === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "We don't sign stars. We build them." From lmacdonald@delphi.com Thu Jan 27 04:07:19 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!delphi!lmacdonald From: lmacdonald@delphi.com (Lucia MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan27.040719.1203@delphi.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 04:07:19 GMT References: <1994Jan22.072119.4830@unam.mx> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jan22.072119.4830@unam.mx>, hmartinez@unam.mx (Hana Martínez) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Lucia MacDonald "Marcus is not one man." Acorn RiscPC 600 / NEXTSTEP 3.3