From mmuller@tum.de Sat Mar 25 03:28:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!tum!mmuller From: mmuller@tum.de (Mateo Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar25.032842.1682@tum.de> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 03:28:42 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. 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. -- Mateo Müller -- Technische Universität München "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From fsokolov@kth.se Sat Mar 25 11:10:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kth!fsokolov From: fsokolov@kth.se (Freya Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar25.111042.4024@kth.se> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 11:10:42 GMT References: <1995Mar25.032842.1682@tum.de> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Mar25.032842.1682@tum.de>, mmuller@tum.de (Mateo Müller) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Freya Sokolov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. ------------------------------------------------------------ From kmoreno@rwth-aachen.de Sun Mar 26 12:16:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!rwth-aachen!kmoreno From: kmoreno@rwth-aachen.de (Katrin Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar26.121642.6564@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 12:16:42 GMT References: <1995Mar25.032842.1682@tum.de> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar25.032842.1682@tum.de>, mmuller@tum.de (Mateo Müller) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Katrin Moreno Hayes Optima 288 @ 28,800 bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From hpetrov@cmu.edu Mon Mar 27 06:46:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cmu!hpetrov From: hpetrov@cmu.edu (Heather Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar27.064642.1638@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 06:46:42 GMT References: <1995Mar25.032842.1682@tum.de> <1995Mar26.121642.6564@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar26.121642.6564@rwth-aachen.de>, kmoreno@rwth-aachen.de (Katrin Moreno) 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. -- === Heather Petrov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "Hold for relay." From ksouza@uni-hamburg.de Tue Mar 28 07:45:42 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uni-hamburg!ksouza From: ksouza@uni-hamburg.de (Kirsty Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar28.074542.9297@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 07:45:42 GMT References: <1995Mar25.032842.1682@tum.de> <1995Mar25.111042.4024@kth.se> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar25.111042.4024@kth.se>, fsokolov@kth.se (Freya Sokolov) writes: > The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. > Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Kirsty Souza *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0