From hlindqvist@purdue.edu Fri Feb 17 00:31:48 1995
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From: hlindqvist@purdue.edu (Hugo Lindqvist)
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Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

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: agonzalez@netcom.com (Aiko González)
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Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Feb17.003148.6994@purdue.edu>, hlindqvist@purdue.edu (Hugo Lindqvist) writes:
> Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.
> Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.

If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis.

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