From hdubois@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Jan 08 17:58:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!u-tokyo!hdubois From: hdubois@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Hana Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan08.175836.5146@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 17:58:36 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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? -- Hana Dubois Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From aivanov@pipeline.com Wed Jan 10 14:19:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pipeline!aivanov From: aivanov@pipeline.com (Aiko Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan10.141936.7824@pipeline.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 14:19:36 GMT References: <1996Jan08.175836.5146@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996Jan08.175836.5146@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, hdubois@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Hana Dubois) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Aiko Ivanov -- The Pipeline Internet Network "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From eschneider@ox.ac.uk Fri Jan 12 01:02:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!ox!eschneider From: eschneider@ox.ac.uk (Élodie Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan12.010236.7577@ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 01:02:36 GMT References: <1996Jan08.175836.5146@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1996Jan10.141936.7824@pipeline.com> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan10.141936.7824@pipeline.com>, aivanov@pipeline.com (Aiko Ivanov) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Élodie Schneider Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Row 14. No joke." From cmuller@hanse.de Fri Jan 12 15:07:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!hanse!cmuller From: cmuller@hanse.de (Camila Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan12.150736.3726@hanse.de> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 15:07:36 GMT References: <1996Jan08.175836.5146@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan08.175836.5146@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, hdubois@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Hana Dubois) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Camila Müller Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.