From bito@ox.ac.uk Sat Jul 08 22:00:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!bito From: bito@ox.ac.uk (Bill Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul08.220013.5586@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1995 22:00:13 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 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. 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? -- Bill Ito Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Oxford University Computing Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From dmacdonald@cern.ch Sun Jul 09 20:36:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cern!dmacdonald From: dmacdonald@cern.ch (Diego MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul09.203613.4731@cern.ch> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 1995 20:36:13 GMT References: <1995Jul08.220013.5586@ox.ac.uk> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul08.220013.5586@ox.ac.uk>, bito@ox.ac.uk (Bill Ito) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Diego MacDonald Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From alindqvist@stanford.edu Tue Jul 11 18:06:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!stanford!alindqvist From: alindqvist@stanford.edu (Aiko Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul11.180613.3613@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 18:06:13 GMT References: <1995Jul08.220013.5586@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul08.220013.5586@ox.ac.uk>, bito@ox.ac.uk (Bill Ito) 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. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Aiko Lindqvist "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Acorn RiscPC 600 / TOS 4.04 From gramirez@stanford.edu Wed Jul 12 19:35:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!stanford!gramirez From: gramirez@stanford.edu (Göran Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul12.193513.7966@stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 19:35:13 GMT References: <1995Jul08.220013.5586@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul08.220013.5586@ox.ac.uk>, bito@ox.ac.uk (Bill Ito) 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. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Göran Ramírez SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ ISDN 64k bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From areyes@ox.ac.uk Fri Jul 14 17:15:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!ox!areyes From: areyes@ox.ac.uk (Andrei Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul14.171513.4658@ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 17:15:13 GMT References: <1995Jul08.220013.5586@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul08.220013.5586@ox.ac.uk>, bito@ox.ac.uk (Bill Ito) 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Andrei Reyes Hayes Optima 288 @ 28,800 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy."