From mstewart@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Jul 02 05:58:27 1994
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From: mstewart@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Mathieu Stewart)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] 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.

Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.
Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.

How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation?

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Mathieu Stewart
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From lnilsson@tum.de Sun Jul 03 10:57:27 1994
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994Jul02.055827.4288@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, mstewart@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Mathieu Stewart) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis.

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Lucia Nilsson -- Technische Universität München
"The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."