From msanchez@cmu.edu Thu Feb 02 15:28:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cmu!msanchez From: msanchez@cmu.edu (Mike Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb02.152806.9065@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 15:28:06 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- === Mike Sánchez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From tweber@kiae.su Thu Feb 02 17:05:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kiae!tweber From: tweber@kiae.su (Takeshi Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb02.170506.7697@kiae.su> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 17:05:06 GMT References: <1995Feb02.152806.9065@cmu.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb02.152806.9065@cmu.edu>, msanchez@cmu.edu (Mike Sánchez) writes: > 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Takeshi Weber | tweber@kiae.su PGP Key fingerprint: 30EC CF89 BBE6 F93C "Keep the channels open." From pjohansson@kiae.su Fri Feb 03 23:16:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!pjohansson From: pjohansson@kiae.su (Pavel Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb03.231606.9657@kiae.su> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 1995 23:16:06 GMT References: <1995Feb02.152806.9065@cmu.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb02.152806.9065@cmu.edu>, msanchez@cmu.edu (Mike Sánchez) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. -- Pavel Johansson "Hold for relay." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / TOS 4.04 From kfischer@illinois.edu Sat Feb 04 22:30:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!illinois!kfischer From: kfischer@illinois.edu (Kirsty Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb04.223006.4674@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 04 Feb 1995 22:30:06 GMT References: <1995Feb02.152806.9065@cmu.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb02.152806.9065@cmu.edu>, msanchez@cmu.edu (Mike Sánchez) writes: > 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. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- === Kirsty Fischer === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Do not worship the copy." From tlopez@ox.ac.uk Sun Feb 05 00:11:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!ox!tlopez From: tlopez@ox.ac.uk (Tyler López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb05.001106.6731@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 05 Feb 1995 00:11:06 GMT References: <1995Feb02.152806.9065@cmu.edu> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Feb02.152806.9065@cmu.edu>, msanchez@cmu.edu (Mike Sánchez) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Tyler López Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------