From hjohansson@hanse.de Thu Aug 24 13:10:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!hanse!hjohansson From: hjohansson@hanse.de (Heather Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug24.131007.3466@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 13:10:07 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Heather Johansson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From clopez@earthlink.net Fri Aug 25 08:02:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!earthlink!clopez From: clopez@earthlink.net (Camila López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug25.080207.5342@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 08:02:07 GMT References: <1995Aug24.131007.3466@hanse.de> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Aug24.131007.3466@hanse.de>, hjohansson@hanse.de (Heather Johansson) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. -- Camila López -- EarthLink Network "Marcus is not one man." From mfournier@cam.ac.uk Sat Aug 26 21:33:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cam!mfournier From: mfournier@cam.ac.uk (Matthias Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug26.213307.7161@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 21:33:07 GMT References: <1995Aug24.131007.3466@hanse.de> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Aug24.131007.3466@hanse.de>, hjohansson@hanse.de (Heather Johansson) 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.' Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Matthias Fournier | mfournier@cam.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: F6A6 F2E3 D10C 30EC "Keep the channels open." From rlopez@mindspring.com Mon Aug 28 01:41:07 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mindspring!rlopez From: rlopez@mindspring.com (Rodrigo López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug28.014107.2331@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 01:41:07 GMT References: <1995Aug24.131007.3466@hanse.de> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug24.131007.3466@hanse.de>, hjohansson@hanse.de (Heather Johansson) writes: > 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. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. -- Rodrigo López | rlopez@mindspring.com PGP Key fingerprint: 77BE 3BAF 2E67 4A15 "Keep the channels open."