From eschneider@utexas.edu Sun Feb 26 04:16:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!utexas!eschneider From: eschneider@utexas.edu (Élodie Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb26.041636.1342@utexas.edu> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 1995 04:16:36 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Élodie Schneider -- University of Texas at Austin "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From vrobertson@unam.mx Tue Feb 28 00:25:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!unam!vrobertson From: vrobertson@unam.mx (Valeria Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb28.002536.2514@unam.mx> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 00:25:36 GMT References: <1995Feb26.041636.1342@utexas.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb26.041636.1342@utexas.edu>, eschneider@utexas.edu (Élodie Schneider) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Valeria Robertson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA). ------------------------------------------------------------ From ckuznetsov@kiae.su Wed Mar 01 12:28:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kiae!ckuznetsov From: ckuznetsov@kiae.su (Camila Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar01.122836.6274@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 12:28:36 GMT References: <1995Feb26.041636.1342@utexas.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb26.041636.1342@utexas.edu>, eschneider@utexas.edu (Élodie Schneider) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- === Camila Kuznetsov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From gsantos@kiae.su Wed Mar 01 22:43:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kiae!gsantos From: gsantos@kiae.su (Graham Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar01.224336.9249@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 22:43:36 GMT References: <1995Feb26.041636.1342@utexas.edu> <1995Mar01.122836.6274@kiae.su> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1995Mar01.122836.6274@kiae.su>, ckuznetsov@kiae.su (Camila Kuznetsov) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Graham Santos *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From nhernandez@panix.com Fri Mar 03 20:27:36 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!panix!nhernandez From: nhernandez@panix.com (Nadine Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar03.202736.2157@panix.com> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 1995 20:27:36 GMT References: <1995Feb26.041636.1342@utexas.edu> <1995Feb28.002536.2514@unam.mx> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb28.002536.2514@unam.mx>, vrobertson@unam.mx (Valeria Robertson) writes: > If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Nadine Hernández Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Public Access Unix of New York. ------------------------------------------------------------