From mwatanabe@pacbell.net Wed Oct 19 13:42:11 1994
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From: mwatanabe@pacbell.net (Marta Watanabe)
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Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.
Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance.

Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation.

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From sito@utexas.edu Thu Oct 20 17:28:11 1994
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From: sito@utexas.edu (Seo-yeon Ito)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994Oct19.134211.2765@pacbell.net>, mwatanabe@pacbell.net (Marta Watanabe) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.
> Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.

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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From asouza@utexas.edu Fri Oct 21 01:24:11 1994
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From: asouza@utexas.edu (Anton Souza)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994Oct20.172811.3711@utexas.edu>, sito@utexas.edu (Seo-yeon Ito) writes:
> It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip.

If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis.

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