From flee@titech.ac.jp Tue Jul 16 20:32:26 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!titech!flee From: flee@titech.ac.jp (Freya Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul16.203226.7799@titech.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 20:32:26 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. 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? -- Freya Lee -- Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "We don't sign stars. We build them." From tmacdonald@clari.net Thu Jul 18 05:29:26 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!clari!tmacdonald From: tmacdonald@clari.net (Takeshi MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul18.052926.3327@clari.net> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 05:29:26 GMT References: <1996Jul16.203226.7799@titech.ac.jp> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul16.203226.7799@titech.ac.jp>, flee@titech.ac.jp (Freya Lee) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Takeshi MacDonald "Row 14. No joke." Amiga 3000T / SunOS 4.1.4 From dwatanabe@inria.fr Thu Jul 18 21:30:26 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!dwatanabe From: dwatanabe@inria.fr (Dmitri Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul18.213026.1309@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 21:30:26 GMT References: <1996Jul16.203226.7799@titech.ac.jp> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul16.203226.7799@titech.ac.jp>, flee@titech.ac.jp (Freya Lee) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Dmitri Watanabe Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------