From mhughes@berkeley.edu Wed Oct 04 01:58:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!berkeley!mhughes From: mhughes@berkeley.edu (Marisol Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct04.015812.4036@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 01:58:12 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Marisol Hughes Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From alee@unam.mx Wed Oct 04 22:28:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!unam!alee From: alee@unam.mx (Anja Lee) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct04.222812.4485@unam.mx> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 22:28:12 GMT References: <1995Oct04.015812.4036@berkeley.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Oct04.015812.4036@berkeley.edu>, mhughes@berkeley.edu (Marisol Hughes) writes: > 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Anja Lee "Marcus is not one man." Atari TT030 / AmigaOS 3.1