From bfournier@cmu.edu Mon Jan 02 23:23:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cmu!bfournier From: bfournier@cmu.edu (Bastien Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan02.232300.6862@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 1995 23:23:00 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Bastien Fournier US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From erobertson@illinois.edu Tue Jan 03 20:20:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!illinois!erobertson From: erobertson@illinois.edu (Elaine Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan03.202000.4318@illinois.edu> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 20:20:00 GMT References: <1995Jan02.232300.6862@cmu.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jan02.232300.6862@cmu.edu>, bfournier@cmu.edu (Bastien Fournier) 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Elaine Robertson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ssmirnov@illinois.edu Thu Jan 05 01:11:00 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!ssmirnov From: ssmirnov@illinois.edu (Steve Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan05.011100.5353@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 01:11:00 GMT References: <1995Jan02.232300.6862@cmu.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan02.232300.6862@cmu.edu>, bfournier@cmu.edu (Bastien Fournier) 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. -- === Steve Smirnov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."