From fsato@stanford.edu Fri Feb 17 06:05:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!stanford!fsato From: fsato@stanford.edu (Fiona Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb17.060527.4468@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 06:05:27 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. 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. -- Fiona Sato *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From bkuznetsov@tum.de Sun Feb 19 08:18:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!tum!bkuznetsov From: bkuznetsov@tum.de (Bastien Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb19.081827.3624@tum.de> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 08:18:27 GMT References: <1995Feb17.060527.4468@stanford.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb17.060527.4468@stanford.edu>, fsato@stanford.edu (Fiona Sato) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Bastien Kuznetsov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From asato@rwth-aachen.de Mon Feb 20 10:49:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!rwth-aachen!asato From: asato@rwth-aachen.de (Aiko Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb20.104927.2461@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 10:49:27 GMT References: <1995Feb17.060527.4468@stanford.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb17.060527.4468@stanford.edu>, fsato@stanford.edu (Fiona Sato) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Aiko Sato Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.