From dperez@uni-hamburg.de Sun May 01 04:08:26 1994
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From: dperez@uni-hamburg.de (Dmitri Pérez)
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Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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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.

Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry?

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From dsanchez@pacbell.net Mon May 02 13:39:26 1994
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From: dsanchez@pacbell.net (Diego Sánchez)
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Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994May01.040826.3628@uni-hamburg.de>, dperez@uni-hamburg.de (Dmitri Pérez) 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.

Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'

Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs.

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