From rkowalski@kth.se Mon Jun 12 01:41:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kth!rkowalski From: rkowalski@kth.se (Rodrigo Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun12.014158.8755@kth.se> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 01:41:58 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Rodrigo Kowalski | rkowalski@kth.se PGP Key fingerprint: A02C 0EFE BE38 015B "Keep the channels open." From asouza@cam.ac.uk Mon Jun 12 05:33:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cam!asouza From: asouza@cam.ac.uk (Anja Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun12.053358.6279@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 05:33:58 GMT References: <1995Jun12.014158.8755@kth.se> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun12.014158.8755@kth.se>, rkowalski@kth.se (Rodrigo Kowalski) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Anja Souza *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0 From kduarte@kth.se Wed Jun 14 01:54:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kth!kduarte From: kduarte@kth.se (Katrin Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun14.015458.5724@kth.se> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 01:54:58 GMT References: <1995Jun12.014158.8755@kth.se> <1995Jun12.053358.6279@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Jun12.053358.6279@cam.ac.uk>, asouza@cam.ac.uk (Anja Souza) writes: > If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. 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. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Katrin Duarte | kduarte@kth.se PGP Key fingerprint: 79B0 059F 3B03 626E "Keep the channels open."