From phughes@pipeline.com Fri Oct 20 09:24:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pipeline!phughes From: phughes@pipeline.com (Pavel Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct20.092403.6674@pipeline.com> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 09:24:03 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Pavel Hughes "Hold for relay." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / AmigaOS 3.1 From mvasiliev@ox.ac.uk Sat Oct 21 00:52:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!mvasiliev From: mvasiliev@ox.ac.uk (Mathieu Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct21.005203.4798@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 00:52:03 GMT References: <1995Oct20.092403.6674@pipeline.com> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct20.092403.6674@pipeline.com>, phughes@pipeline.com (Pavel Hughes) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Mathieu Vasiliev | mvasiliev@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 06E9 0962 CE60 9604 "Keep the channels open." From kweber@clari.net Sat Oct 21 17:17:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!clari!kweber From: kweber@clari.net (Karen Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct21.171703.1917@clari.net> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 17:17:03 GMT References: <1995Oct20.092403.6674@pipeline.com> <1995Oct21.005203.4798@ox.ac.uk> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct21.005203.4798@ox.ac.uk>, mvasiliev@ox.ac.uk (Mathieu Vasiliev) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Karen Weber | kweber@clari.net PGP Key fingerprint: 5B08 C2E6 0691 4455 "Keep the channels open." From efournier@rwth-aachen.de Sat Oct 21 20:10:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!rwth-aachen!efournier From: efournier@rwth-aachen.de (Emi Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Oct21.201003.1340@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 20:10:03 GMT References: <1995Oct20.092403.6674@pipeline.com> <1995Oct21.005203.4798@ox.ac.uk> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Oct21.005203.4798@ox.ac.uk>, mvasiliev@ox.ac.uk (Mathieu Vasiliev) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Emi Fournier -- RWTH Aachen Informatik "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."