From jhughes@mit.edu Tue Mar 14 09:34:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mit!jhughes From: jhughes@mit.edu (Joachim Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar14.093427.3549@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 09:34:27 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Joachim Hughes Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mgirard@clari.net Thu Mar 16 07:04:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!clari!mgirard From: mgirard@clari.net (Marta Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar16.070427.1190@clari.net> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 07:04:27 GMT References: <1995Mar14.093427.3549@mit.edu> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar14.093427.3549@mit.edu>, jhughes@mit.edu (Joachim Hughes) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Marta Girard Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of ClariNet Communications Corp. ------------------------------------------------------------ From mperez@mit.edu Thu Mar 16 22:48:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mit!mperez From: mperez@mit.edu (Marisol Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar16.224827.9542@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 22:48:27 GMT References: <1995Mar14.093427.3549@mit.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Mar14.093427.3549@mit.edu>, jhughes@mit.edu (Joachim Hughes) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Marisol Pérez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0