From nbrennan@titech.ac.jp Tue Feb 28 09:12:38 1995
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From: nbrennan@titech.ac.jp (Nadine Brennan)
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Subject: Discussion: 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.

In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts.
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.

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From nkuznetsov@delphi.com Tue Feb 28 22:43:38 1995
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From: nkuznetsov@delphi.com (Natalia Kuznetsov)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Feb28.091238.5364@titech.ac.jp>, nbrennan@titech.ac.jp (Nadine Brennan) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.
> In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts.

It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip.

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From kdubois@uni-hamburg.de Wed Mar 01 01:55:38 1995
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From: kdubois@uni-hamburg.de (Kirsty Dubois)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Feb28.091238.5364@titech.ac.jp>, nbrennan@titech.ac.jp (Nadine Brennan) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip.

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=== Kirsty Dubois ===
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From aweber@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Mar 02 02:27:38 1995
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From: aweber@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Anja Weber)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Feb28.091238.5364@titech.ac.jp>, nbrennan@titech.ac.jp (Nadine Brennan) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis.

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=== Anja Weber ===
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