From mmuller@tum.de Mon Jan 16 17:38:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!tum!mmuller From: mmuller@tum.de (Marta Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan16.173831.3386@tum.de> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 17:38:31 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de 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. -- Marta Müller Zyxel U-1496E @ 19,200 bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From jbrennan@stanford.edu Tue Jan 17 07:16:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!stanford!jbrennan From: jbrennan@stanford.edu (Julien Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan17.071631.6913@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 07:16:31 GMT References: <1995Jan16.173831.3386@tum.de> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jan16.173831.3386@tum.de>, mmuller@tum.de (Marta Müller) writes: > 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Julien Brennan Zyxel U-1496E @ 33,600 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From elee@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Jan 18 09:27:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!elee From: elee@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Élodie Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan18.092731.1385@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 09:27:31 GMT References: <1995Jan16.173831.3386@tum.de> <1995Jan17.071631.6913@stanford.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Jan17.071631.6913@stanford.edu>, jbrennan@stanford.edu (Julien Brennan) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Élodie Lee -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "Hold for relay." From bnakamura@unam.mx Thu Jan 19 20:19:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!unam!bnakamura From: bnakamura@unam.mx (Bruno Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan19.201931.4194@unam.mx> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 20:19:31 GMT References: <1995Jan16.173831.3386@tum.de> <1995Jan17.071631.6913@stanford.edu> <1995Jan18.092731.1385@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan18.092731.1385@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, elee@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Élodie Lee) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Bruno Nakamura -- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) "Row 14. No joke."