From nmoreau@illinois.edu Sun Oct 15 21:01:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!nmoreau From: nmoreau@illinois.edu (Nadine Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct15.210108.2657@illinois.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 21:01:08 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 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. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Nadine Moreau "Marcus is not one man." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / SunOS 4.1.4 From kdubois@ox.ac.uk Mon Oct 16 13:07:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!ox!kdubois From: kdubois@ox.ac.uk (Kenji Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct16.130708.9840@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 13:07:08 GMT References: <1995Oct15.210108.2657@illinois.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct15.210108.2657@illinois.edu>, nmoreau@illinois.edu (Nadine Moreau) 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.' -- Kenji Dubois Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From ilindqvist@pacbell.net Wed Oct 18 04:30:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pacbell!ilindqvist From: ilindqvist@pacbell.net (Ines Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct18.043008.8977@pacbell.net> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 04:30:08 GMT References: <1995Oct15.210108.2657@illinois.edu> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Oct15.210108.2657@illinois.edu>, nmoreau@illinois.edu (Nadine Moreau) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Ines Lindqvist Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.