From kmoreau@purdue.edu Thu Jul 20 12:13:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!purdue!kmoreau From: kmoreau@purdue.edu (Kirsty Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul20.121341.6233@purdue.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 12:13:41 GMT Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Kirsty Moreau Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Purdue University Engineering Computer Network. ------------------------------------------------------------ From djohansson@rwth-aachen.de Sat Jul 22 08:11:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!rwth-aachen!djohansson From: djohansson@rwth-aachen.de (Diego Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul22.081141.5049@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 08:11:41 GMT References: <1995Jul20.121341.6233@purdue.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul20.121341.6233@purdue.edu>, kmoreau@purdue.edu (Kirsty Moreau) 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.' -- Diego Johansson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From lpark@utexas.edu Sat Jul 22 13:49:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!utexas!lpark From: lpark@utexas.edu (Lars Park) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul22.134941.8293@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 13:49:41 GMT References: <1995Jul20.121341.6233@purdue.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul20.121341.6233@purdue.edu>, kmoreau@purdue.edu (Kirsty Moreau) 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Lars Park Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Texas at Austin. ------------------------------------------------------------