From bchoi@cam.ac.uk Fri Apr 01 08:53:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cam!bchoi From: bchoi@cam.ac.uk (Brian Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr01.085341.9485@cam.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 01 Apr 1994 08:53:41 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Brian Choi *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From dvasiliev@kiae.su Fri Apr 01 22:59:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kiae!dvasiliev From: dvasiliev@kiae.su (Dong-hyun Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr01.225941.6256@kiae.su> Date: Fri, 01 Apr 1994 22:59:41 GMT References: <1994Apr01.085341.9485@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr01.085341.9485@cam.ac.uk>, bchoi@cam.ac.uk (Brian Choi) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Dong-hyun Vasiliev *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From rkim@pipeline.com Sat Apr 02 04:49:41 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!pipeline!rkim From: rkim@pipeline.com (Raj Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr02.044941.1586@pipeline.com> Date: Sat, 02 Apr 1994 04:49:41 GMT References: <1994Apr01.085341.9485@cam.ac.uk> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr01.085341.9485@cam.ac.uk>, bchoi@cam.ac.uk (Brian Choi) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Raj Kim "Row 14. No joke." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / Linux 1.2.13