From anilsson@pipeline.com Sat Jan 20 11:23:18 1996
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From: anilsson@pipeline.com (Anton Nilsson)
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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'.

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.

Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation.

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From dbrennan@utexas.edu Sun Jan 21 21:33:18 1996
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1996Jan20.112318.1661@pipeline.com>, anilsson@pipeline.com (Anton Nilsson) 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.

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From mkim@panix.com Tue Jan 23 16:22:18 1996
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From: mkim@panix.com (Mathieu Kim)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1996Jan20.112318.1661@pipeline.com>, anilsson@pipeline.com (Anton Nilsson) writes:
> Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code.

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