From ssato@cern.ch Tue Oct 01 11:22:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cern!ssato From: ssato@cern.ch (Sven Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct01.112248.7836@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 11:22:48 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Sven Sato -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From dhernandez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Oct 01 17:00:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!u-tokyo!dhernandez From: dhernandez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Dave Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct01.170048.2106@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 17:00:48 GMT References: <1996Oct01.112248.7836@cern.ch> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct01.112248.7836@cern.ch>, ssato@cern.ch (Sven Sato) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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. -- Dave Hernández US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From akang@purdue.edu Thu Oct 03 04:27:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!purdue!akang From: akang@purdue.edu (Anja Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct03.042748.4968@purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 04:27:48 GMT References: <1996Oct01.112248.7836@cern.ch> <1996Oct01.170048.2106@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Oct01.170048.2106@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, dhernandez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Dave Hernández) 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Anja Kang | akang@purdue.edu PGP Key fingerprint: BDA7 D0B5 7892 137E "Keep the channels open." From lduarte@mindspring.com Thu Oct 03 17:13:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mindspring!lduarte From: lduarte@mindspring.com (Liam Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Oct03.171348.5983@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 17:13:48 GMT References: <1996Oct01.112248.7836@cern.ch> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct01.112248.7836@cern.ch>, ssato@cern.ch (Sven Sato) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Liam Duarte *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0