From ymoreno@illinois.edu Sun Jun 25 12:56:47 1995
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From: ymoreno@illinois.edu (Yuki Moreno)
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Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

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.

Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry?

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Yuki Moreno
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From fmoreno@clari.net Mon Jun 26 03:35:47 1995
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Jun25.125647.1290@illinois.edu>, ymoreno@illinois.edu (Yuki Moreno) writes:
> Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.
> Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.

Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'

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From afischer@uu.net Wed Jun 28 00:12:47 1995
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From: afischer@uu.net (Aiko Fischer)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Jun25.125647.1290@illinois.edu>, ymoreno@illinois.edu (Yuki Moreno) writes:
> Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.
> Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.

It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip.

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