From ovasiliev@cmu.edu Fri Jul 14 00:05:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cmu!ovasiliev From: ovasiliev@cmu.edu (Olga Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul14.000521.1882@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 00:05:21 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Olga Vasiliev "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / System 7.5.1 From hschneider@pipeline.com Fri Jul 14 15:41:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!pipeline!hschneider From: hschneider@pipeline.com (Hugo Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul14.154121.6804@pipeline.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 15:41:21 GMT References: <1995Jul14.000521.1882@cmu.edu> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Jul14.000521.1882@cmu.edu>, ovasiliev@cmu.edu (Olga Vasiliev) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. -- Hugo Schneider -- The Pipeline Internet Network "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From efournier@panix.com Fri Jul 14 20:20:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!panix!efournier From: efournier@panix.com (Élodie Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul14.202021.7055@panix.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 20:20:21 GMT References: <1995Jul14.000521.1882@cmu.edu> <1995Jul14.154121.6804@pipeline.com> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Jul14.154121.6804@pipeline.com>, hschneider@pipeline.com (Hugo Schneider) writes: > 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Élodie Fournier Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mdubois@cern.ch Sat Jul 15 10:29:21 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cern!mdubois From: mdubois@cern.ch (Mathieu Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul15.102921.4895@cern.ch> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 10:29:21 GMT References: <1995Jul14.000521.1882@cmu.edu> <1995Jul14.154121.6804@pipeline.com> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Jul14.154121.6804@pipeline.com>, hschneider@pipeline.com (Hugo Schneider) writes: > 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. 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. -- Mathieu Dubois -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."