From rrodriguez@hanse.de Sat May 18 13:48:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!hanse!rrodriguez From: rrodriguez@hanse.de (Renata Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May18.134848.6054@hanse.de> Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 13:48:48 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- === Renata Rodríguez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From dmoreno@panix.com Sat May 18 16:54:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!panix!dmoreno From: dmoreno@panix.com (Dong-hyun Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May18.165448.8531@panix.com> Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 16:54:48 GMT References: <1996May18.134848.6054@hanse.de> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1996May18.134848.6054@hanse.de>, rrodriguez@hanse.de (Renata Rodríguez) 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. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Dong-hyun Moreno -- Public Access Unix of New York "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From iito@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun May 19 04:46:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!u-tokyo!iito From: iito@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ines Ito) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May19.044648.7493@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 04:46:48 GMT References: <1996May18.134848.6054@hanse.de> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1996May18.134848.6054@hanse.de>, rrodriguez@hanse.de (Renata Rodríguez) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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. -- Ines Ito -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From mmoreau@utexas.edu Tue May 21 08:25:48 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!utexas!mmoreau From: mmoreau@utexas.edu (Mathieu Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May21.082548.8361@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 08:25:48 GMT References: <1996May18.134848.6054@hanse.de> <1996May19.044648.7493@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996May19.044648.7493@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, iito@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Ines Ito) writes: > 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. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Mathieu Moreau "Marcus is not one man." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / AmigaOS 3.1