From mhughes@unam.mx Tue Apr 18 17:53:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!unam!mhughes From: mhughes@unam.mx (Mei Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr18.175319.7354@unam.mx> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 17:53:19 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Mei Hughes Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mduarte@illinois.edu Thu Apr 20 18:13:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!illinois!mduarte From: mduarte@illinois.edu (Marisol Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr20.181319.4156@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 18:13:19 GMT References: <1995Apr18.175319.7354@unam.mx> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr18.175319.7354@unam.mx>, mhughes@unam.mx (Mei Hughes) writes: > 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Marisol Duarte Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From sramirez@uni-hamburg.de Fri Apr 21 08:15:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uni-hamburg!sramirez From: sramirez@uni-hamburg.de (Sun-mi Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr21.081519.7864@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 08:15:19 GMT References: <1995Apr18.175319.7354@unam.mx> <1995Apr20.181319.4156@illinois.edu> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Apr20.181319.4156@illinois.edu>, mduarte@illinois.edu (Marisol Duarte) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Sun-mi Ramírez -- Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "When every node is whole, the channel opens."