From tmacdonald@tum.de Wed Aug 24 20:34:31 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!tum!tmacdonald From: tmacdonald@tum.de (Tyler MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Aug24.203431.6245@tum.de> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 20:34:31 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de 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? 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? -- Tyler MacDonald Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From seriksson@cmu.edu Thu Aug 25 10:17:31 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!seriksson From: seriksson@cmu.edu (Sergei Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Aug25.101731.1638@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 10:17:31 GMT References: <1994Aug24.203431.6245@tum.de> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Aug24.203431.6245@tum.de>, tmacdonald@tum.de (Tyler MacDonald) 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Sergei Eriksson "Marcus is not one man." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / FreeBSD 2.1 From ogonzalez@cern.ch Fri Aug 26 02:25:31 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cern!ogonzalez From: ogonzalez@cern.ch (Olga González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Aug26.022531.9665@cern.ch> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 02:25:31 GMT References: <1994Aug24.203431.6245@tum.de> <1994Aug25.101731.1638@cmu.edu> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1994Aug25.101731.1638@cmu.edu>, seriksson@cmu.edu (Sergei Eriksson) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. > If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Olga González | ogonzalez@cern.ch PGP Key fingerprint: 55E7 8193 A202 403F "Keep the channels open." From glindqvist@pipeline.com Sat Aug 27 13:26:31 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!pipeline!glindqvist From: glindqvist@pipeline.com (Göran Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Aug27.132631.1070@pipeline.com> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 1994 13:26:31 GMT References: <1994Aug24.203431.6245@tum.de> <1994Aug25.101731.1638@cmu.edu> <1994Aug26.022531.9665@cern.ch> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Aug26.022531.9665@cern.ch>, ogonzalez@cern.ch (Olga González) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. > If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Göran Lindqvist | glindqvist@pipeline.com PGP Key fingerprint: 17E5 7B66 30FF AD85 "Keep the channels open."