From rchoi@demon.co.uk Sat Mar 05 15:33:28 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!demon!rchoi From: rchoi@demon.co.uk (Renata Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Mar05.153328.7392@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 05 Mar 1994 15:33:28 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. 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? -- Renata Choi -- Demon Internet Services UK "Marcus is not one man." From lpetrov@inria.fr Sun Mar 06 18:53:28 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!inria!lpetrov From: lpetrov@inria.fr (Liam Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Mar06.185328.4986@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 06 Mar 1994 18:53:28 GMT References: <1994Mar05.153328.7392@demon.co.uk> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar05.153328.7392@demon.co.uk>, rchoi@demon.co.uk (Renata Choi) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Liam Petrov "We don't sign stars. We build them." Decstation 5000/200 / AmigaOS 3.1