From osouza@illinois.edu Wed Feb 14 10:31:01 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!illinois!osouza From: osouza@illinois.edu (Olga Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Feb14.103101.9663@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 10:31:01 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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? -- Olga Souza Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------ From bsato@netcom.com Thu Feb 15 12:02:01 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!netcom!bsato From: bsato@netcom.com (Bastien Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Feb15.120201.6091@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:02:01 GMT References: <1996Feb14.103101.9663@illinois.edu> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996Feb14.103101.9663@illinois.edu>, osouza@illinois.edu (Olga Souza) 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. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Bastien Sato Hayes Optima 288 @ 14,400 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From amartinez@delphi.com Fri Feb 16 11:12:01 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!delphi!amartinez From: amartinez@delphi.com (Anja Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Feb16.111201.6593@delphi.com> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 11:12:01 GMT References: <1996Feb14.103101.9663@illinois.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1996Feb14.103101.9663@illinois.edu>, osouza@illinois.edu (Olga Souza) 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. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Anja Martínez "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / Linux 1.2.13 From abrennan@mindspring.com Fri Feb 16 15:23:01 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mindspring!abrennan From: abrennan@mindspring.com (Amy Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Feb16.152301.8869@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 15:23:01 GMT References: <1996Feb14.103101.9663@illinois.edu> <1996Feb15.120201.6091@netcom.com> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb15.120201.6091@netcom.com>, bsato@netcom.com (Bastien Sato) 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. -- Amy Brennan *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0