From tkuznetsov@stanford.edu Wed Aug 17 20:33:15 1994
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From: tkuznetsov@stanford.edu (Takeshi Kuznetsov)
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Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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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.

Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation.

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From tgarcia@panix.com Fri Aug 19 14:25:15 1994
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994Aug17.203315.4995@stanford.edu>, tkuznetsov@stanford.edu (Takeshi Kuznetsov) 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 CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code.

Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns.

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