From esato@netcom.com Mon Dec 18 11:22:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!netcom!esato From: esato@netcom.com (Élodie Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec18.112212.3053@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 11:22:12 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. 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? -- Élodie Sato US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 28,800 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From nsanchez@inria.fr Wed Dec 20 02:34:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!inria!nsanchez From: nsanchez@inria.fr (Nadia Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec20.023412.5153@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 02:34:12 GMT References: <1995Dec18.112212.3053@netcom.com> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Dec18.112212.3053@netcom.com>, esato@netcom.com (Élodie Sato) 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Nadia Sánchez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0