From ikim@mit.edu Fri Sep 22 23:28:22 1995
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From: ikim@mit.edu (Ines Kim)
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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.

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.

How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation?

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From dtanaka@purdue.edu Sat Sep 23 12:58:22 1995
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In article <1995Sep22.232822.8451@mit.edu>, ikim@mit.edu (Ines Kim) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

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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=== Diego Tanaka ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
"Marcus is not one man."