From cramirez@stanford.edu Mon Dec 26 02:31:57 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!stanford!cramirez From: cramirez@stanford.edu (Callum Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec26.023157.9068@stanford.edu> Date: Mon, 26 Dec 1994 02:31:57 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.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. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Callum Ramírez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From jmacdonald@delphi.com Tue Dec 27 06:04:57 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!delphi!jmacdonald From: jmacdonald@delphi.com (Julien MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec27.060457.8721@delphi.com> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 06:04:57 GMT References: <1994Dec26.023157.9068@stanford.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Dec26.023157.9068@stanford.edu>, cramirez@stanford.edu (Callum Ramírez) writes: > 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. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Julien MacDonald Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Delphi Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------