From hweber@titech.ac.jp Sun Aug 11 00:16:29 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!titech!hweber From: hweber@titech.ac.jp (Heather Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug11.001629.2277@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 00:16:29 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Heather Weber Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre. ------------------------------------------------------------ From oeriksson@netcom.com Sun Aug 11 13:46:29 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!netcom!oeriksson From: oeriksson@netcom.com (Olga Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug11.134629.7081@netcom.com> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 13:46:29 GMT References: <1996Aug11.001629.2277@titech.ac.jp> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug11.001629.2277@titech.ac.jp>, hweber@titech.ac.jp (Heather Weber) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Olga Eriksson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of NETCOM On-Line Communication Services. ------------------------------------------------------------ From gmoreau@rwth-aachen.de Mon Aug 12 21:40:29 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!rwth-aachen!gmoreau From: gmoreau@rwth-aachen.de (Göran Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug12.214029.8387@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 21:40:29 GMT References: <1996Aug11.001629.2277@titech.ac.jp> <1996Aug11.134629.7081@netcom.com> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug11.134629.7081@netcom.com>, oeriksson@netcom.com (Olga Eriksson) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Göran Moreau *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0