From gduarte@ox.ac.uk Tue Dec 19 10:25:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!gduarte From: gduarte@ox.ac.uk (Göran Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec19.102544.7738@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 10:25:44 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Göran Duarte *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From dokonkwo@ox.ac.uk Wed Dec 20 20:21:44 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!dokonkwo From: dokonkwo@ox.ac.uk (Dave Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec20.202144.9606@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 20:21:44 GMT References: <1995Dec19.102544.7738@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Dec19.102544.7738@ox.ac.uk>, gduarte@ox.ac.uk (Göran Duarte) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Dave Okonkwo *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0