From lmoreau@illinois.edu Fri Jun 16 10:09:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!illinois!lmoreau From: lmoreau@illinois.edu (Lars Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun16.100906.2326@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 10:09:06 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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? -- Lars Moreau Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------ From gsato@illinois.edu Sun Jun 18 13:34:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!illinois!gsato From: gsato@illinois.edu (Göran Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun18.133406.5978@illinois.edu> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 13:34:06 GMT References: <1995Jun16.100906.2326@illinois.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jun16.100906.2326@illinois.edu>, lmoreau@illinois.edu (Lars Moreau) 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- === Göran Sato === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Do not worship the copy." From jgarcia@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Jun 19 13:07:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!u-tokyo!jgarcia From: jgarcia@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Jens García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun19.130706.9409@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 13:07:06 GMT References: <1995Jun16.100906.2326@illinois.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun16.100906.2326@illinois.edu>, lmoreau@illinois.edu (Lars Moreau) 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. 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. -- Jens García Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From yfischer@rwth-aachen.de Mon Jun 19 14:33:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!rwth-aachen!yfischer From: yfischer@rwth-aachen.de (Yuki Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun19.143306.7135@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 14:33:06 GMT References: <1995Jun16.100906.2326@illinois.edu> <1995Jun18.133406.5978@illinois.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun18.133406.5978@illinois.edu>, gsato@illinois.edu (Göran Sato) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Yuki Fischer SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 14,400 bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From mmoreno@utexas.edu Wed Jun 21 09:55:06 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!utexas!mmoreno From: mmoreno@utexas.edu (Marta Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun21.095506.5311@utexas.edu> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 1995 09:55:06 GMT References: <1995Jun16.100906.2326@illinois.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun16.100906.2326@illinois.edu>, lmoreau@illinois.edu (Lars Moreau) 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. -- Marta Moreno Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 28,800 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens."