From mpark@titech.ac.jp Sun Jun 23 21:21:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!titech!mpark From: mpark@titech.ac.jp (Mateo Park) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun23.212107.8739@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 21:21:07 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 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. 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. -- Mateo Park US Robotics Courier V.34 @ ISDN 64k bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From cfischer@cam.ac.uk Mon Jun 24 15:35:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cam!cfischer From: cfischer@cam.ac.uk (Camila Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun24.153507.3397@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 15:35:07 GMT References: <1996Jun23.212107.8739@titech.ac.jp> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1996Jun23.212107.8739@titech.ac.jp>, mpark@titech.ac.jp (Mateo Park) 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Camila Fischer Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ ISDN 64k bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From hrodriguez@kiae.su Wed Jun 26 10:35:07 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!kiae!hrodriguez From: hrodriguez@kiae.su (Hana Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jun26.103507.5649@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 10:35:07 GMT References: <1996Jun23.212107.8739@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jun23.212107.8739@titech.ac.jp>, mpark@titech.ac.jp (Mateo Park) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. -- Hana Rodríguez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. ------------------------------------------------------------