From asmirnov@stanford.edu Wed Feb 15 18:20:54 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!stanford!asmirnov From: asmirnov@stanford.edu (Anton Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb15.182054.8685@stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 18:20:54 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. 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? -- Anton Smirnov Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From oramirez@demon.co.uk Thu Feb 16 04:57:54 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!demon!oramirez From: oramirez@demon.co.uk (Olga Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb16.045754.5678@demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 04:57:54 GMT References: <1995Feb15.182054.8685@stanford.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995Feb15.182054.8685@stanford.edu>, asmirnov@stanford.edu (Anton Smirnov) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Olga Ramírez Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 14,400 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."