From mkim@uu.net Tue Mar 01 01:39:15 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uu!mkim From: mkim@uu.net (Mikhail Kim) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Mar01.013915.5769@uu.net> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1994 01:39:15 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. 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? -- Mikhail Kim -- UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "They will send a copy in my place." From jkowalski@panix.com Thu Mar 03 03:09:15 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!panix!jkowalski From: jkowalski@panix.com (Jen Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Mar03.030915.1826@panix.com> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 1994 03:09:15 GMT References: <1994Mar01.013915.5769@uu.net> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar01.013915.5769@uu.net>, mkim@uu.net (Mikhail Kim) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Jen Kowalski Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From dlopez@kiae.su Thu Mar 03 16:56:15 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kiae!dlopez From: dlopez@kiae.su (Dave López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Mar03.165615.3555@kiae.su> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 1994 16:56:15 GMT References: <1994Mar01.013915.5769@uu.net> <1994Mar03.030915.1826@panix.com> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar03.030915.1826@panix.com>, jkowalski@panix.com (Jen Kowalski) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- === Dave López === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From amoreau@pacbell.net Fri Mar 04 01:34:15 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!pacbell!amoreau From: amoreau@pacbell.net (Astrid Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Mar04.013415.3474@pacbell.net> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1994 01:34:15 GMT References: <1994Mar01.013915.5769@uu.net> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar01.013915.5769@uu.net>, mkim@uu.net (Mikhail 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. -- Astrid Moreau Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Pacific Bell Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------ From afischer@pacbell.net Fri Mar 04 17:42:15 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!pacbell!afischer From: afischer@pacbell.net (Astrid Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Mar04.174215.7396@pacbell.net> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 1994 17:42:15 GMT References: <1994Mar01.013915.5769@uu.net> <1994Mar03.030915.1826@panix.com> <1994Mar03.165615.3555@kiae.su> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Mar03.165615.3555@kiae.su>, dlopez@kiae.su (Dave López) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- === Astrid Fischer === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Pacific Bell Internet Services "Do not worship the copy."