From nweber@illinois.edu Mon Oct 14 02:15:02 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!illinois!nweber From: nweber@illinois.edu (Nadia Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct14.021502.1921@illinois.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 02:15:02 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 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. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Nadia Weber Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From iramirez@illinois.edu Tue Oct 15 02:26:02 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!illinois!iramirez From: iramirez@illinois.edu (Ines Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct15.022602.1302@illinois.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 02:26:02 GMT References: <1996Oct14.021502.1921@illinois.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct14.021502.1921@illinois.edu>, nweber@illinois.edu (Nadia Weber) 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. -- Ines Ramírez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From rschneider@uni-hamburg.de Wed Oct 16 02:04:02 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uni-hamburg!rschneider From: rschneider@uni-hamburg.de (Rodrigo Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct16.020402.3704@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 02:04:02 GMT References: <1996Oct14.021502.1921@illinois.edu> <1996Oct15.022602.1302@illinois.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1996Oct15.022602.1302@illinois.edu>, iramirez@illinois.edu (Ines Ramírez) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Rodrigo Schneider Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From skuznetsov@pipeline.com Thu Oct 17 09:53:02 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!pipeline!skuznetsov From: skuznetsov@pipeline.com (Sun-mi Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct17.095302.9988@pipeline.com> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:53:02 GMT References: <1996Oct14.021502.1921@illinois.edu> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct14.021502.1921@illinois.edu>, nweber@illinois.edu (Nadia Weber) 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. 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. -- === Sun-mi Kuznetsov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, The Pipeline Internet Network "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."