From mpopov@netcom.com Sat Feb 04 21:08:45 1995
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From: mpopov@netcom.com (Mike Popov)
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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.

Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry?

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From hmacdonald@delphi.com Mon Feb 06 18:18:45 1995
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From: hmacdonald@delphi.com (Heather MacDonald)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Feb04.210845.4796@netcom.com>, mpopov@netcom.com (Mike Popov) 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.

They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis.

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Heather MacDonald
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