From rsantos@stanford.edu Mon Feb 28 10:07:55 1994
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From: rsantos@stanford.edu (Renata Santos)
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Subject: 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.

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.

Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation.

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From mschneider@uu.net Tue Mar 01 17:39:55 1994
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From: mschneider@uu.net (Matthias Schneider)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994Feb28.100755.7320@stanford.edu>, rsantos@stanford.edu (Renata Santos) 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.

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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From tfournier@kiae.su Thu Mar 03 00:05:55 1994
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994Feb28.100755.7320@stanford.edu>, rsantos@stanford.edu (Renata Santos) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'

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=== Thiago Fournier ===
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