From dmoreno@uu.net Tue Dec 24 23:05:35 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!uu!dmoreno From: dmoreno@uu.net (Diego Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Dec24.230535.3455@uu.net> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 23:05:35 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Diego Moreno Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From vokonkwo@uni-hamburg.de Thu Dec 26 18:07:35 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uni-hamburg!vokonkwo From: vokonkwo@uni-hamburg.de (Valeria Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Dec26.180735.5543@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 18:07:35 GMT References: <1996Dec24.230535.3455@uu.net> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Dec24.230535.3455@uu.net>, dmoreno@uu.net (Diego Moreno) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Valeria Okonkwo Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------ From jdubois@ox.ac.uk Sat Dec 28 06:26:35 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!jdubois From: jdubois@ox.ac.uk (Jen Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Dec28.062635.5485@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 06:26:35 GMT References: <1996Dec24.230535.3455@uu.net> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1996Dec24.230535.3455@uu.net>, dmoreno@uu.net (Diego Moreno) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > 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. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Jen Dubois Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From cokonkwo@delphi.com Sun Dec 29 11:31:35 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!delphi!cokonkwo From: cokonkwo@delphi.com (Camila Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Dec29.113135.4274@delphi.com> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 11:31:35 GMT References: <1996Dec24.230535.3455@uu.net> <1996Dec28.062635.5485@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec28.062635.5485@ox.ac.uk>, jdubois@ox.ac.uk (Jen Dubois) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. 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 Okonkwo Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 28,800 bps "Do not worship the copy."