From csokolov@mit.edu Mon Apr 25 18:37:52 1994
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From: csokolov@mit.edu (Callum Sokolov)
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Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.
In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts.

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 nhernandez@cam.ac.uk Tue Apr 26 22:52:52 1994
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From: nhernandez@cam.ac.uk (Natalia Hernández)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994Apr25.183752.4977@mit.edu>, csokolov@mit.edu (Callum Sokolov) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model.

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=== Natalia Hernández ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
"Do not worship the copy."