From hnovak@clari.net Thu Nov 23 01:37:17 1995
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From: hnovak@clari.net (Heather Novak)
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Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts.
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?

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From mtanaka@purdue.edu Fri Nov 24 21:08:17 1995
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From: mtanaka@purdue.edu (Mathieu Tanaka)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Nov23.013717.2744@clari.net>, hnovak@clari.net (Heather Novak) writes:
> Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.
> In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts.

They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis.

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Mathieu Tanaka -- Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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From dfischer@uni-hamburg.de Sun Nov 26 05:42:17 1995
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From: dfischer@uni-hamburg.de (Diego Fischer)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 05:42:17 GMT
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In article <1995Nov24.210817.5600@purdue.edu>, mtanaka@purdue.edu (Mathieu Tanaka) writes:
> They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis.

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.

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=== Diego Fischer ===
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