From dsantos@mit.edu Sat Feb 10 07:45:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!dsantos From: dsantos@mit.edu (Dong-hyun Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Feb10.074530.4478@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 07:45:30 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.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. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Dong-hyun Santos | dsantos@mit.edu PGP Key fingerprint: A33B 1693 831D 0973 "Keep the channels open." From fhernandez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Feb 10 22:33:30 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!u-tokyo!fhernandez From: fhernandez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Freya Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Feb10.223330.2286@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 22:33:30 GMT References: <1996Feb10.074530.4478@mit.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb10.074530.4478@mit.edu>, dsantos@mit.edu (Dong-hyun Santos) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Freya Hernández *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0