From spetrov@purdue.edu Wed Jan 10 12:07:31 1996
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From: spetrov@purdue.edu (Seo-yeon Petrov)
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Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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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.

How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation?

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From mtanaka@illinois.edu Wed Jan 10 19:09:31 1996
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From: mtanaka@illinois.edu (Mei Tanaka)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1996Jan10.120731.6841@purdue.edu>, spetrov@purdue.edu (Seo-yeon Petrov) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model.

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