From bcampbell@utexas.edu Thu Aug 24 06:21:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!utexas!bcampbell From: bcampbell@utexas.edu (Brian Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug24.062122.4778@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 06:21:22 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. 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? -- Brian Campbell | bcampbell@utexas.edu PGP Key fingerprint: ABFF 2797 BB7B 011A "Keep the channels open." From ikowalski@illinois.edu Thu Aug 24 08:07:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!ikowalski From: ikowalski@illinois.edu (Ines Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug24.080722.5977@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 08:07:22 GMT References: <1995Aug24.062122.4778@utexas.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug24.062122.4778@utexas.edu>, bcampbell@utexas.edu (Brian Campbell) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Ines Kowalski "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Macintosh IIfx / TOS 4.04 From jkuznetsov@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Aug 24 12:05:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!u-tokyo!jkuznetsov From: jkuznetsov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ji-woo Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug24.120522.6854@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 12:05:22 GMT References: <1995Aug24.062122.4778@utexas.edu> <1995Aug24.080722.5977@illinois.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug24.080722.5977@illinois.edu>, ikowalski@illinois.edu (Ines Kowalski) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Ji-woo Kuznetsov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Tokyo Department of Information Science. ------------------------------------------------------------