From tpark@hanse.de Tue Oct 03 21:02:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!hanse!tpark From: tpark@hanse.de (Tobias Park) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct03.210244.5574@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 21:02:44 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Tobias Park "Row 14. No joke." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / Linux 1.2.13 From tpopov@illinois.edu Thu Oct 05 20:38:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!illinois!tpopov From: tpopov@illinois.edu (Thiago Popov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct05.203844.2469@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 20:38:44 GMT References: <1995Oct03.210244.5574@hanse.de> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct03.210244.5574@hanse.de>, tpark@hanse.de (Tobias Park) 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.' -- === Thiago Popov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From mlee@uni-hamburg.de Sat Oct 07 15:09:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uni-hamburg!mlee From: mlee@uni-hamburg.de (Min-jun Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct07.150944.6872@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 07 Oct 1995 15:09:44 GMT References: <1995Oct03.210244.5574@hanse.de> <1995Oct05.203844.2469@illinois.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Oct05.203844.2469@illinois.edu>, tpopov@illinois.edu (Thiago Popov) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Min-jun Lee Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From fsuzuki@berkeley.edu Sun Oct 08 12:41:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!berkeley!fsuzuki From: fsuzuki@berkeley.edu (Fiona Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct08.124144.4850@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 08 Oct 1995 12:41:44 GMT References: <1995Oct03.210244.5574@hanse.de> <1995Oct05.203844.2469@illinois.edu> <1995Oct07.150944.6872@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Oct07.150944.6872@uni-hamburg.de>, mlee@uni-hamburg.de (Min-jun Lee) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Fiona Suzuki "They will send a copy in my place." NeXTstation Turbo Color / SunOS 4.1.4