From jschneider@pipeline.com Mon Jan 17 01:37:28 1994
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From: jschneider@pipeline.com (Jen Schneider)
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Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible?

In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts.
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?

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Jen Schneider
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From ksmirnov@cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 18 01:39:28 1994
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From: ksmirnov@cam.ac.uk (Kirsty Smirnov)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994Jan17.013728.2061@pipeline.com>, jschneider@pipeline.com (Jen Schneider) writes:
> Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible?
> In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts.

It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip.

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Kirsty Smirnov
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