From ejohansson@ox.ac.uk Sat Dec 16 12:54:30 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!ox!ejohansson From: ejohansson@ox.ac.uk (Élodie Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec16.125430.7338@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 12:54:30 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Élodie Johansson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From ichoi@titech.ac.jp Sun Dec 17 19:05:30 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!titech!ichoi From: ichoi@titech.ac.jp (Ines Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec17.190530.3821@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 19:05:30 GMT References: <1995Dec16.125430.7338@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec16.125430.7338@ox.ac.uk>, ejohansson@ox.ac.uk (Élodie Johansson) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. -- Ines Choi US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 19,200 bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From smacdonald@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Dec 19 11:12:30 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!smacdonald From: smacdonald@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Steve MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec19.111230.8436@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 11:12:30 GMT References: <1995Dec16.125430.7338@ox.ac.uk> <1995Dec17.190530.3821@titech.ac.jp> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec17.190530.3821@titech.ac.jp>, ichoi@titech.ac.jp (Ines Choi) writes: > If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- === Steve MacDonald === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "They will send a copy in my place." From mokonkwo@demon.co.uk Wed Dec 20 06:49:30 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!mokonkwo From: mokonkwo@demon.co.uk (Mei Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec20.064930.8727@demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 06:49:30 GMT References: <1995Dec16.125430.7338@ox.ac.uk> <1995Dec17.190530.3821@titech.ac.jp> <1995Dec19.111230.8436@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec19.111230.8436@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, smacdonald@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Steve MacDonald) writes: > The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Mei Okonkwo "Marcus is not one man." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From ssokolov@tum.de Thu Dec 21 18:59:30 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!ssokolov From: ssokolov@tum.de (Seo-yeon Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec21.185930.7484@tum.de> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 18:59:30 GMT References: <1995Dec16.125430.7338@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec16.125430.7338@ox.ac.uk>, ejohansson@ox.ac.uk (Élodie Johansson) 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. -- Seo-yeon Sokolov | ssokolov@tum.de PGP Key fingerprint: 5A12 594F DC94 BCF1 "Keep the channels open."