From npetrov@hanse.de Wed Apr 17 01:34:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!hanse!npetrov From: npetrov@hanse.de (Natalia Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Apr17.013428.5499@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 01:34:28 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? 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Natalia Petrov "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Decstation 5000/200 / FreeBSD 2.1 From tito@illinois.edu Wed Apr 17 16:20:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!illinois!tito From: tito@illinois.edu (Thiago Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Apr17.162028.7681@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 16:20:28 GMT References: <1996Apr17.013428.5499@hanse.de> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1996Apr17.013428.5499@hanse.de>, npetrov@hanse.de (Natalia Petrov) 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. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Thiago Ito Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "We don't sign stars. We build them."