From llopez@rwth-aachen.de Tue Feb 07 14:00:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!rwth-aachen!llopez From: llopez@rwth-aachen.de (Lars López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb07.140029.6119@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 1995 14:00:29 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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. -- Lars López "Do not worship the copy." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / AmigaOS 3.1 From mandersson@pipeline.com Wed Feb 08 05:24:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!pipeline!mandersson From: mandersson@pipeline.com (Mei Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb08.052429.9840@pipeline.com> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 1995 05:24:29 GMT References: <1995Feb07.140029.6119@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb07.140029.6119@rwth-aachen.de>, llopez@rwth-aachen.de (Lars López) 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. 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. -- Mei Andersson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From aschneider@earthlink.net Fri Feb 10 05:20:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!earthlink!aschneider From: aschneider@earthlink.net (Astrid Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb10.052029.8217@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 05:20:29 GMT References: <1995Feb07.140029.6119@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb07.140029.6119@rwth-aachen.de>, llopez@rwth-aachen.de (Lars López) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Astrid Schneider "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / SunOS 4.1.4 From jchoi@ox.ac.uk Sun Feb 12 02:29:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!jchoi From: jchoi@ox.ac.uk (Joachim Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb12.022929.5787@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 02:29:29 GMT References: <1995Feb07.140029.6119@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb07.140029.6119@rwth-aachen.de>, llopez@rwth-aachen.de (Lars López) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Joachim Choi "Hold for relay." Sun SparcStation 20 / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From pjohansson@inria.fr Tue Feb 14 02:03:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!inria!pjohansson From: pjohansson@inria.fr (Pavel Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb14.020329.7554@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 02:03:29 GMT References: <1995Feb07.140029.6119@rwth-aachen.de> <1995Feb10.052029.8217@earthlink.net> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb10.052029.8217@earthlink.net>, aschneider@earthlink.net (Astrid Schneider) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Pavel Johansson "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Decstation 5000/200 / AmigaOS 3.1