From koliveira@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Nov 10 20:27:18 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!koliveira From: koliveira@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Karen Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Nov10.202718.7260@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 20:27:18 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 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. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Karen Oliveira *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From rmoreno@inria.fr Fri Nov 11 03:54:18 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!rmoreno From: rmoreno@inria.fr (Raj Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Nov11.035418.8792@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 03:54:18 GMT References: <1994Nov10.202718.7260@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Nov10.202718.7260@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, koliveira@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Karen Oliveira) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Raj Moreno -- INRIA Rocquencourt "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From civanov@tum.de Sat Nov 12 18:56:18 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!tum!civanov From: civanov@tum.de (Callum Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Nov12.185618.1525@tum.de> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 18:56:18 GMT References: <1994Nov10.202718.7260@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1994Nov10.202718.7260@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, koliveira@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Karen Oliveira) 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. -- Callum Ivanov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From ndubois@panix.com Mon Nov 14 10:01:18 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!panix!ndubois From: ndubois@panix.com (Nadia Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Nov14.100118.5893@panix.com> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 10:01:18 GMT References: <1994Nov10.202718.7260@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1994Nov12.185618.1525@tum.de> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Nov12.185618.1525@tum.de>, civanov@tum.de (Callum Ivanov) writes: > The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Nadia Dubois SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 28,800 bps "Marcus is not one man."