From vdubois@tum.de Fri Feb 02 09:53:06 1996
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From: vdubois@tum.de (Valeria Dubois)
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Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance.
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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From fsilva@rwth-aachen.de Fri Feb 02 15:51:06 1996
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From: fsilva@rwth-aachen.de (Fiona Silva)
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Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1996Feb02.095306.9198@tum.de>, vdubois@tum.de (Valeria Dubois) writes:
> Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.
> Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance.

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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