From dsmirnov@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Oct 05 09:30:51 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!dsmirnov From: dsmirnov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Dmitri Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct05.093051.2909@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 1994 09:30:51 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Dmitri Smirnov "We don't sign stars. We build them." Macintosh IIfx / TOS 4.04 From mfischer@u-tokyo.ac.jp Thu Oct 06 13:22:51 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!u-tokyo!mfischer From: mfischer@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Mikhail Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct06.132251.8267@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 1994 13:22:51 GMT References: <1994Oct05.093051.2909@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Oct05.093051.2909@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, dsmirnov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Dmitri Smirnov) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Mikhail Fischer Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From tcampbell@mindspring.com Sat Oct 08 13:33:51 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mindspring!tcampbell From: tcampbell@mindspring.com (Tyler Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct08.133351.8075@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 08 Oct 1994 13:33:51 GMT References: <1994Oct05.093051.2909@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct05.093051.2909@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, dsmirnov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Dmitri Smirnov) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Tyler Campbell Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From jlaurent@mit.edu Mon Oct 10 07:01:51 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mit!jlaurent From: jlaurent@mit.edu (Ji-woo Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Oct10.070151.4563@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 07:01:51 GMT References: <1994Oct05.093051.2909@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1994Oct08.133351.8075@mindspring.com> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Oct08.133351.8075@mindspring.com>, tcampbell@mindspring.com (Tyler Campbell) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Ji-woo Laurent "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / FreeBSD 2.1