From kmartinez@rwth-aachen.de Mon Apr 03 20:36:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!rwth-aachen!kmartinez From: kmartinez@rwth-aachen.de (Karen Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr03.203651.5632@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 20:36:51 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Karen Martínez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From tsokolov@clari.net Tue Apr 04 08:20:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!clari!tsokolov From: tsokolov@clari.net (Takeshi Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr04.082051.2453@clari.net> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 08:20:51 GMT References: <1995Apr03.203651.5632@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr03.203651.5632@rwth-aachen.de>, kmartinez@rwth-aachen.de (Karen 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. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Takeshi Sokolov | tsokolov@clari.net PGP Key fingerprint: EF5D 90B9 0BD7 4E66 "Keep the channels open." From dsokolov@tum.de Thu Apr 06 03:31:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!tum!dsokolov From: dsokolov@tum.de (Dmitri Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr06.033151.2065@tum.de> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 03:31:51 GMT References: <1995Apr03.203651.5632@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Apr03.203651.5632@rwth-aachen.de>, kmartinez@rwth-aachen.de (Karen 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. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Dmitri Sokolov Zyxel U-1496E @ 33,600 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From dsato@stanford.edu Fri Apr 07 14:32:51 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!stanford!dsato From: dsato@stanford.edu (Dmitri Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr07.143251.2203@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 14:32:51 GMT References: <1995Apr03.203651.5632@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr03.203651.5632@rwth-aachen.de>, kmartinez@rwth-aachen.de (Karen 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. 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. -- Dmitri Sato -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "They will send a copy in my place."