From jkuznetsov@panix.com Wed Feb 22 23:30:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!panix!jkuznetsov From: jkuznetsov@panix.com (Jens Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb22.233017.7703@panix.com> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 23:30:17 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Jens Kuznetsov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From tvasiliev@stanford.edu Thu Feb 23 12:28:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!stanford!tvasiliev From: tvasiliev@stanford.edu (Tyler Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb23.122817.2120@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 12:28:17 GMT References: <1995Feb22.233017.7703@panix.com> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Feb22.233017.7703@panix.com>, jkuznetsov@panix.com (Jens Kuznetsov) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Tyler Vasiliev | tvasiliev@stanford.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 7026 3425 D721 FEE2 "Keep the channels open." From trodriguez@demon.co.uk Sat Feb 25 14:23:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!demon!trodriguez From: trodriguez@demon.co.uk (Thiago Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb25.142317.6289@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 14:23:17 GMT References: <1995Feb22.233017.7703@panix.com> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Feb22.233017.7703@panix.com>, jkuznetsov@panix.com (Jens Kuznetsov) 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. -- Thiago Rodríguez -- Demon Internet Services UK "We don't sign stars. We build them." From jlindqvist@unam.mx Mon Feb 27 12:12:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!unam!jlindqvist From: jlindqvist@unam.mx (Jen Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Feb27.121217.5905@unam.mx> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 12:12:17 GMT References: <1995Feb22.233017.7703@panix.com> <1995Feb23.122817.2120@stanford.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb23.122817.2120@stanford.edu>, tvasiliev@stanford.edu (Tyler Vasiliev) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Jen Lindqvist Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 33,600 bps "Hold for relay." From ybrennan@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Mar 01 11:11:17 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!ybrennan From: ybrennan@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Yuki Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar01.111117.5313@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 11:11:17 GMT References: <1995Feb22.233017.7703@panix.com> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Feb22.233017.7703@panix.com>, jkuznetsov@panix.com (Jens Kuznetsov) 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. -- Yuki Brennan -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."