From sschneider@stanford.edu Wed Sep 27 07:51:46 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!stanford!sschneider From: sschneider@stanford.edu (Seo-yeon Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep27.075146.6511@stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 07:51:46 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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? -- Seo-yeon Schneider US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From vsato@kiae.su Wed Sep 27 14:52:46 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kiae!vsato From: vsato@kiae.su (Valeria Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep27.145246.8763@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 14:52:46 GMT References: <1995Sep27.075146.6511@stanford.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep27.075146.6511@stanford.edu>, sschneider@stanford.edu (Seo-yeon Schneider) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Valeria Sato | vsato@kiae.su PGP Key fingerprint: 38E0 32CB 807A F62F "Keep the channels open." From kmuller@ox.ac.uk Thu Sep 28 06:05:46 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!ox!kmuller From: kmuller@ox.ac.uk (Kirsty Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Sep28.060546.1299@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 06:05:46 GMT References: <1995Sep27.075146.6511@stanford.edu> <1995Sep27.145246.8763@kiae.su> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Sep27.145246.8763@kiae.su>, vsato@kiae.su (Valeria Sato) writes: > The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Kirsty Müller *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0