From tpetrov@rwth-aachen.de Sun Feb 19 20:19:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!rwth-aachen!tpetrov From: tpetrov@rwth-aachen.de (Thiago Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb19.201936.6827@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 20:19:36 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 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. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- === Thiago Petrov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, RWTH Aachen Informatik "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From tsilva@delphi.com Tue Feb 21 07:52:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!delphi!tsilva From: tsilva@delphi.com (Tomas Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb21.075236.5213@delphi.com> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 07:52:36 GMT References: <1995Feb19.201936.6827@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb19.201936.6827@rwth-aachen.de>, tpetrov@rwth-aachen.de (Thiago Petrov) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. -- Tomas Silva "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Atari TT030 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From ghughes@inria.fr Tue Feb 21 13:38:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!inria!ghughes From: ghughes@inria.fr (Göran Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb21.133836.5815@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 13:38:36 GMT References: <1995Feb19.201936.6827@rwth-aachen.de> <1995Feb21.075236.5213@delphi.com> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb21.075236.5213@delphi.com>, tsilva@delphi.com (Tomas Silva) writes: > 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Göran Hughes Zyxel U-1496E @ 33,600 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From hlee@panix.com Tue Feb 21 18:37:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!panix!hlee From: hlee@panix.com (Hugo Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb21.183736.5936@panix.com> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1995 18:37:36 GMT References: <1995Feb19.201936.6827@rwth-aachen.de> <1995Feb21.075236.5213@delphi.com> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb21.075236.5213@delphi.com>, tsilva@delphi.com (Tomas Silva) writes: > 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Hugo Lee Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Public Access Unix of New York. ------------------------------------------------------------