From ylindqvist@unam.mx Mon Jul 04 13:57:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!unam!ylindqvist From: ylindqvist@unam.mx (Yuki Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul04.135754.7466@unam.mx> Date: Mon, 04 Jul 1994 13:57:54 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Yuki Lindqvist Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA). ------------------------------------------------------------ From ssanchez@clari.net Tue Jul 05 01:36:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!clari!ssanchez From: ssanchez@clari.net (Sergei Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul05.013654.6532@clari.net> Date: Tue, 05 Jul 1994 01:36:54 GMT References: <1994Jul04.135754.7466@unam.mx> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul04.135754.7466@unam.mx>, ylindqvist@unam.mx (Yuki Lindqvist) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Sergei Sánchez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From mfischer@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Jul 06 05:48:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!u-tokyo!mfischer From: mfischer@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Morag Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul06.054854.2523@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 06 Jul 1994 05:48:54 GMT References: <1994Jul04.135754.7466@unam.mx> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Jul04.135754.7466@unam.mx>, ylindqvist@unam.mx (Yuki Lindqvist) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Morag Fischer Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Tokyo Department of Information Science. ------------------------------------------------------------