From jsouza@mit.edu Sat Jan 14 04:06:30 1995
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Subject: 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.

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.

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

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From amoreau@berkeley.edu Mon Jan 16 05:18:30 1995
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Jan14.040630.1115@mit.edu>, jsouza@mit.edu (Jens Souza) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.
> Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.

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

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From trodriguez@berkeley.edu Tue Jan 17 08:02:30 1995
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Jan14.040630.1115@mit.edu>, jsouza@mit.edu (Jens Souza) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.
> 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.

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