From jrobertson@berkeley.edu Wed Jul 24 00:08:09 1996
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From: jrobertson@berkeley.edu (Julien Robertson)
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Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.
Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.

How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation?

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From nandersson@earthlink.net Thu Jul 25 23:05:09 1996
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From: nandersson@earthlink.net (Nadine Andersson)
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1996Jul24.000809.1344@berkeley.edu>, jrobertson@berkeley.edu (Julien Robertson) 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.

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From rlarsson@cern.ch Sat Jul 27 05:39:09 1996
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1996Jul25.230509.6122@earthlink.net>, nandersson@earthlink.net (Nadine Andersson) 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.

The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code.

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From lfischer@pacbell.net Sat Jul 27 19:37:09 1996
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Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1996Jul24.000809.1344@berkeley.edu>, jrobertson@berkeley.edu (Julien Robertson) 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.

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=== Lars Fischer ===
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