From akuznetsov@panix.com Thu May 25 05:24:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!panix!akuznetsov From: akuznetsov@panix.com (Anja Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May25.052458.5136@panix.com> Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 05:24:58 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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. 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? -- === Anja Kuznetsov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Public Access Unix of New York "They will send a copy in my place." From bhernandez@rwth-aachen.de Thu May 25 23:28:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!rwth-aachen!bhernandez From: bhernandez@rwth-aachen.de (Bill Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May25.232858.1334@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 23:28:58 GMT References: <1995May25.052458.5136@panix.com> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995May25.052458.5136@panix.com>, akuznetsov@panix.com (Anja Kuznetsov) 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. -- Bill Hernández "A soul is not exclusive to biology." Acorn RiscPC 600 / Linux 1.2.13