From mmoreno@titech.ac.jp Thu Aug 01 16:56:50 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!titech!mmoreno From: mmoreno@titech.ac.jp (Mathieu Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug01.165650.3540@titech.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 16:56:50 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Mathieu Moreno Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From rdubois@netcom.com Fri Aug 02 06:21:50 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!netcom!rdubois From: rdubois@netcom.com (Rodrigo Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug02.062150.7233@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 06:21:50 GMT References: <1996Aug01.165650.3540@titech.ac.jp> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Aug01.165650.3540@titech.ac.jp>, mmoreno@titech.ac.jp (Mathieu Moreno) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. 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. -- === Rodrigo Dubois === Dept of Electrical Engineering, NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "We don't sign stars. We build them." From flaurent@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Aug 03 06:47:50 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!u-tokyo!flaurent From: flaurent@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Fiona Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Aug03.064750.1287@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 06:47:50 GMT References: <1996Aug01.165650.3540@titech.ac.jp> <1996Aug02.062150.7233@netcom.com> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Aug02.062150.7233@netcom.com>, rdubois@netcom.com (Rodrigo Dubois) writes: > 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. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Fiona Laurent "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Acorn RiscPC 600 / TOS 4.04