From fpopov@kth.se Sun Apr 03 00:21:13 1994
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From: fpopov@kth.se (Fiona Popov)
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Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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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.

Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry?

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From cstewart@delphi.com Sun Apr 03 19:27:13 1994
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From: cstewart@delphi.com (Callum Stewart)
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Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994Apr03.002113.9262@kth.se>, fpopov@kth.se (Fiona Popov) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision.

Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs.

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From mmuller@inria.fr Tue Apr 05 08:05:13 1994
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From: mmuller@inria.fr (Mike Müller)
Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop
Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 1994 08:05:13 GMT
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In article <1994Apr03.192713.9127@delphi.com>, cstewart@delphi.com (Callum Stewart) writes:
> That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision.

It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip.

Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin!

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