From mweber@pacbell.net Mon Jan 09 04:18:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pacbell!mweber From: mweber@pacbell.net (Mikhail Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan09.041801.1493@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 04:18:01 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Mikhail Weber Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From nperez@kth.se Tue Jan 10 22:21:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!nperez From: nperez@kth.se (Nadine Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan10.222101.6829@kth.se> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 22:21:01 GMT References: <1995Jan09.041801.1493@pacbell.net> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan09.041801.1493@pacbell.net>, mweber@pacbell.net (Mikhail Weber) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. -- Nadine Pérez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. ------------------------------------------------------------ From pokonkwo@netcom.com Wed Jan 11 17:34:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!netcom!pokonkwo From: pokonkwo@netcom.com (Pavel Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan11.173401.6847@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 17:34:01 GMT References: <1995Jan09.041801.1493@pacbell.net> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan09.041801.1493@pacbell.net>, mweber@pacbell.net (Mikhail Weber) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Pavel Okonkwo *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From boliveira@inria.fr Fri Jan 13 03:54:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!boliveira From: boliveira@inria.fr (Bastien Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan13.035401.2040@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 03:54:01 GMT References: <1995Jan09.041801.1493@pacbell.net> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan09.041801.1493@pacbell.net>, mweber@pacbell.net (Mikhail Weber) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Bastien Oliveira Hayes Optima 288 @ 14,400 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."