From dkim@clari.net Fri Dec 09 03:31:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!clari!dkim From: dkim@clari.net (Diego Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec09.033132.9141@clari.net> Date: Fri, 09 Dec 1994 03:31:32 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. 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 Kim "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Sun SparcStation 20 / System 7.5.1 From sreyes@kiae.su Sat Dec 10 05:18:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kiae!sreyes From: sreyes@kiae.su (Steve Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec10.051832.6235@kiae.su> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1994 05:18:32 GMT References: <1994Dec09.033132.9141@clari.net> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1994Dec09.033132.9141@clari.net>, dkim@clari.net (Diego Kim) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. 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. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Steve Reyes | sreyes@kiae.su PGP Key fingerprint: 113D 6F75 8568 9896 "Keep the channels open."