From csilva@mit.edu Tue May 16 15:17:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mit!csilva From: csilva@mit.edu (Callum Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May16.151718.7131@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 15:17:18 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Callum Silva "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / AmigaOS 3.1 From mlopez@titech.ac.jp Wed May 17 08:01:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!titech!mlopez From: mlopez@titech.ac.jp (Mei López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May17.080118.4493@titech.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 08:01:18 GMT References: <1995May16.151718.7131@mit.edu> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995May16.151718.7131@mit.edu>, csilva@mit.edu (Callum Silva) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Mei López "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / FreeBSD 2.1