From jvasiliev@utexas.edu Thu Jan 11 00:06:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!utexas!jvasiliev From: jvasiliev@utexas.edu (Ji-woo Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan11.000658.6369@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 00:06:58 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 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. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Ji-woo Vasiliev Zyxel U-1496E @ 19,200 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From ptakahashi@u-tokyo.ac.jp Fri Jan 12 05:10:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!u-tokyo!ptakahashi From: ptakahashi@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Pavel Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan12.051058.6745@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 05:10:58 GMT References: <1996Jan11.000658.6369@utexas.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan11.000658.6369@utexas.edu>, jvasiliev@utexas.edu (Ji-woo Vasiliev) 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. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Pavel Takahashi -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From eduarte@stanford.edu Sat Jan 13 20:57:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!stanford!eduarte From: eduarte@stanford.edu (Emi Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan13.205758.8890@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 20:57:58 GMT References: <1996Jan11.000658.6369@utexas.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan11.000658.6369@utexas.edu>, jvasiliev@utexas.edu (Ji-woo Vasiliev) 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. -- Emi Duarte | eduarte@stanford.edu PGP Key fingerprint: F758 348B CD3D A849 "Keep the channels open." From hstewart@illinois.edu Sun Jan 14 03:14:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!illinois!hstewart From: hstewart@illinois.edu (Hana Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan14.031458.7705@illinois.edu> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 03:14:58 GMT References: <1996Jan11.000658.6369@utexas.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan11.000658.6369@utexas.edu>, jvasiliev@utexas.edu (Ji-woo Vasiliev) 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.' -- Hana Stewart *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0