From aokonkwo@illinois.edu Sat Oct 26 00:53:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!illinois!aokonkwo From: aokonkwo@illinois.edu (Astrid Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct26.005317.6975@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:53:17 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu 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? Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Astrid Okonkwo *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From amoreau@illinois.edu Sat Oct 26 09:41:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!amoreau From: amoreau@illinois.edu (Aiko Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct26.094117.1732@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 09:41:17 GMT References: <1996Oct26.005317.6975@illinois.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct26.005317.6975@illinois.edu>, aokonkwo@illinois.edu (Astrid Okonkwo) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > 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. -- Aiko Moreau Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------ From nstewart@purdue.edu Mon Oct 28 12:03:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!purdue!nstewart From: nstewart@purdue.edu (Nadine Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct28.120317.7527@purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:03:17 GMT References: <1996Oct26.005317.6975@illinois.edu> <1996Oct26.094117.1732@illinois.edu> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct26.094117.1732@illinois.edu>, amoreau@illinois.edu (Aiko Moreau) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Nadine Stewart Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Purdue University Engineering Computer Network. ------------------------------------------------------------ From hlaurent@mit.edu Mon Oct 28 20:01:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mit!hlaurent From: hlaurent@mit.edu (Hugo Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct28.200117.7582@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 20:01:17 GMT References: <1996Oct26.005317.6975@illinois.edu> <1996Oct26.094117.1732@illinois.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct26.094117.1732@illinois.edu>, amoreau@illinois.edu (Aiko Moreau) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Hugo Laurent Hayes Optima 288 @ 19,200 bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From aokonkwo@cern.ch Tue Oct 29 03:29:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cern!aokonkwo From: aokonkwo@cern.ch (Amy Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct29.032917.8033@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 03:29:17 GMT References: <1996Oct26.005317.6975@illinois.edu> <1996Oct26.094117.1732@illinois.edu> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct26.094117.1732@illinois.edu>, amoreau@illinois.edu (Aiko Moreau) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Amy Okonkwo SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens."