From rhughes@titech.ac.jp Fri Mar 17 14:15:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!titech!rhughes From: rhughes@titech.ac.jp (Rodrigo Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar17.141543.4824@titech.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 14:15:43 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Rodrigo Hughes Hayes Optima 288 @ ISDN 64k bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From moliveira@inria.fr Sat Mar 18 20:06:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!moliveira From: moliveira@inria.fr (Marisol Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar18.200643.2194@inria.fr> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 20:06:43 GMT References: <1995Mar17.141543.4824@titech.ac.jp> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar17.141543.4824@titech.ac.jp>, rhughes@titech.ac.jp (Rodrigo Hughes) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Marisol Oliveira "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / AmigaOS 3.1 From rhughes@pipeline.com Sun Mar 19 08:24:43 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!pipeline!rhughes From: rhughes@pipeline.com (Rodrigo Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar19.082443.7927@pipeline.com> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 08:24:43 GMT References: <1995Mar17.141543.4824@titech.ac.jp> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar17.141543.4824@titech.ac.jp>, rhughes@titech.ac.jp (Rodrigo Hughes) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > 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. -- Rodrigo Hughes "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / SunOS 4.1.4