From lramirez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue May 23 16:55:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!u-tokyo!lramirez From: lramirez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Liam Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May23.165544.5737@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 16:55:44 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Liam Ramírez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From kbrennan@tum.de Wed May 24 00:24:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!tum!kbrennan From: kbrennan@tum.de (Katrin Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May24.002444.2446@tum.de> Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 00:24:44 GMT References: <1995May23.165544.5737@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995May23.165544.5737@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, lramirez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Liam Ramírez) 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. -- Katrin Brennan Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Technische Universität München. ------------------------------------------------------------ From dgirard@purdue.edu Fri May 26 03:49:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!purdue!dgirard From: dgirard@purdue.edu (Diego Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May26.034944.8807@purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 03:49:44 GMT References: <1995May23.165544.5737@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995May24.002444.2446@tum.de> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995May24.002444.2446@tum.de>, kbrennan@tum.de (Katrin Brennan) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Diego Girard | dgirard@purdue.edu PGP Key fingerprint: EEB9 78A4 BEFA 54BB "Keep the channels open." From osilva@inria.fr Sun May 28 02:04:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!inria!osilva From: osilva@inria.fr (Olga Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May28.020444.8546@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 02:04:44 GMT References: <1995May23.165544.5737@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995May24.002444.2446@tum.de> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995May24.002444.2446@tum.de>, kbrennan@tum.de (Katrin Brennan) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Olga Silva Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.