From mmoreno@uu.net Sat Jun 22 07:53:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!uu!mmoreno From: mmoreno@uu.net (Mike Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun22.075336.2272@uu.net> Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 07:53:36 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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? -- Mike Moreno Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ ISDN 64k bps "Row 14. No joke." From tbrennan@mit.edu Mon Jun 24 05:04:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mit!tbrennan From: tbrennan@mit.edu (Tobias Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun24.050436.6254@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 05:04:36 GMT References: <1996Jun22.075336.2272@uu.net> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun22.075336.2272@uu.net>, mmoreno@uu.net (Mike Moreno) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Tobias Brennan "A soul is not exclusive to biology." Atari Falcon 030 / System 7.5.1 From aduarte@unam.mx Tue Jun 25 05:50:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!unam!aduarte From: aduarte@unam.mx (Andrei Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun25.055036.9918@unam.mx> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 05:50:36 GMT References: <1996Jun22.075336.2272@uu.net> <1996Jun24.050436.6254@mit.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun24.050436.6254@mit.edu>, tbrennan@mit.edu (Tobias Brennan) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. -- === Andrei Duarte === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) "Row 14. No joke." From mhernandez@stanford.edu Tue Jun 25 23:53:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!stanford!mhernandez From: mhernandez@stanford.edu (Morag Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun25.235336.6705@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 23:53:36 GMT References: <1996Jun22.075336.2272@uu.net> <1996Jun24.050436.6254@mit.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun24.050436.6254@mit.edu>, tbrennan@mit.edu (Tobias Brennan) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Morag Hernández SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."