From mkowalski@clari.net Tue Jun 21 22:27:51 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!clari!mkowalski From: mkowalski@clari.net (Mathieu Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jun21.222751.7584@clari.net> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 1994 22:27:51 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net 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. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. 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? -- Mathieu Kowalski Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of ClariNet Communications Corp. ------------------------------------------------------------ From rbrennan@kiae.su Thu Jun 23 03:22:51 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kiae!rbrennan From: rbrennan@kiae.su (Raj Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jun23.032251.1781@kiae.su> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 1994 03:22:51 GMT References: <1994Jun21.222751.7584@clari.net> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jun21.222751.7584@clari.net>, mkowalski@clari.net (Mathieu Kowalski) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Raj Brennan Hayes Optima 288 @ 14,400 bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From ntakahashi@pipeline.com Fri Jun 24 15:19:51 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!pipeline!ntakahashi From: ntakahashi@pipeline.com (Nadine Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jun24.151951.4884@pipeline.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 15:19:51 GMT References: <1994Jun21.222751.7584@clari.net> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Jun21.222751.7584@clari.net>, mkowalski@clari.net (Mathieu Kowalski) 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. -- Nadine Takahashi Hayes Optima 288 @ 28,800 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."