From eduarte@hanse.de Wed Nov 01 07:25:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!hanse!eduarte From: eduarte@hanse.de (Elaine Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov01.072559.8786@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 07:25:59 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.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? -- Elaine Duarte "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From tmoreno@titech.ac.jp Fri Nov 03 05:07:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!titech!tmoreno From: tmoreno@titech.ac.jp (Tomas Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Nov03.050759.8603@titech.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 05:07:59 GMT References: <1995Nov01.072559.8786@hanse.de> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Nov01.072559.8786@hanse.de>, eduarte@hanse.de (Elaine Duarte) 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. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Tomas Moreno | tmoreno@titech.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: 1B2F 9B4F A059 D5CC "Keep the channels open."