From dperez@purdue.edu Mon Mar 11 17:24:36 1996
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From: dperez@purdue.edu (Dmitri Pérez)
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Subject: Discussion: 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.
In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts.

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 edubois@delphi.com Mon Mar 11 18:48:36 1996
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Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1996Mar11.172436.7211@purdue.edu>, dperez@purdue.edu (Dmitri Pérez) 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.

Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'

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