From stakahashi@kth.se Thu Jun 13 12:13:37 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kth!stakahashi From: stakahashi@kth.se (Sven Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun13.121337.8224@kth.se> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 12:13:37 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Sven Takahashi *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From randersson@inria.fr Fri Jun 14 14:01:37 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!inria!randersson From: randersson@inria.fr (Raj Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun14.140137.6410@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 14:01:37 GMT References: <1996Jun13.121337.8224@kth.se> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1996Jun13.121337.8224@kth.se>, stakahashi@kth.se (Sven Takahashi) 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. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Raj Andersson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0