From amoreau@uu.net Sat Jul 01 05:09:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uu!amoreau From: amoreau@uu.net (Astrid Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul01.050945.3960@uu.net> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 1995 05:09:45 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. 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? -- Astrid Moreau Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "They will send a copy in my place." From hnovak@titech.ac.jp Sun Jul 02 06:40:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!titech!hnovak From: hnovak@titech.ac.jp (Hugo Novak) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul02.064045.3092@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 1995 06:40:45 GMT References: <1995Jul01.050945.3960@uu.net> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jul01.050945.3960@uu.net>, amoreau@uu.net (Astrid Moreau) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. 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! -- === Hugo Novak === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From ksilva@kiae.su Tue Jul 04 05:56:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kiae!ksilva From: ksilva@kiae.su (Karen Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul04.055645.4176@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 05:56:45 GMT References: <1995Jul01.050945.3960@uu.net> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Jul01.050945.3960@uu.net>, amoreau@uu.net (Astrid Moreau) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Karen Silva | ksilva@kiae.su PGP Key fingerprint: C9E3 4182 EEE9 FAD9 "Keep the channels open." From ssilva@uni-hamburg.de Wed Jul 05 16:11:45 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uni-hamburg!ssilva From: ssilva@uni-hamburg.de (Sergei Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul05.161145.3259@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1995 16:11:45 GMT References: <1995Jul01.050945.3960@uu.net> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul01.050945.3960@uu.net>, amoreau@uu.net (Astrid Moreau) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- === Sergei Silva === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "Row 14. No joke."