From mvasiliev@cern.ch Sun Jun 25 15:25:23 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cern!mvasiliev From: mvasiliev@cern.ch (Marta Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun25.152523.6088@cern.ch> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 15:25:23 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Marta Vasiliev "Do not worship the copy." Macintosh IIfx / System 7.5.1 From bsato@pacbell.net Mon Jun 26 09:24:23 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!pacbell!bsato From: bsato@pacbell.net (Brian Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun26.092423.8839@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 09:24:23 GMT References: <1995Jun25.152523.6088@cern.ch> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun25.152523.6088@cern.ch>, mvasiliev@cern.ch (Marta Vasiliev) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Brian Sato -- Pacific Bell Internet Services "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"