From jlaurent@demon.co.uk Sun Nov 12 10:57:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!demon!jlaurent From: jlaurent@demon.co.uk (Joachim Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov12.105701.4886@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 10:57:01 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- === Joachim Laurent === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Demon Internet Services UK "Marcus is not one man." From mmuller@stanford.edu Tue Nov 14 13:48:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!stanford!mmuller From: mmuller@stanford.edu (Mathieu Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov14.134801.5282@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 13:48:01 GMT References: <1995Nov12.105701.4886@demon.co.uk> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov12.105701.4886@demon.co.uk>, jlaurent@demon.co.uk (Joachim Laurent) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Mathieu Müller Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Stanford University Computer Systems Lab. ------------------------------------------------------------ From llarsson@kth.se Tue Nov 14 15:51:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kth!llarsson From: llarsson@kth.se (Lucia Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov14.155101.6208@kth.se> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 15:51:01 GMT References: <1995Nov12.105701.4886@demon.co.uk> <1995Nov14.134801.5282@stanford.edu> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Nov14.134801.5282@stanford.edu>, mmuller@stanford.edu (Mathieu Müller) writes: > If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Lucia Larsson Hayes Optima 288 @ ISDN 64k bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens."