From mkang@clari.net Sat Jan 28 08:40:48 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!clari!mkang From: mkang@clari.net (Min-jun Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan28.084048.6281@clari.net> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 08:40:48 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net 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? Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Min-jun Kang *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0 From mtakahashi@unam.mx Sun Jan 29 13:51:48 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!unam!mtakahashi From: mtakahashi@unam.mx (Mei Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan29.135148.2873@unam.mx> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 13:51:48 GMT References: <1995Jan28.084048.6281@clari.net> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan28.084048.6281@clari.net>, mkang@clari.net (Min-jun Kang) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Mei Takahashi "Do not worship the copy." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / Linux 1.2.13 From mdubois@panix.com Mon Jan 30 05:53:48 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!panix!mdubois From: mdubois@panix.com (Mateo Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan30.055348.5063@panix.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 05:53:48 GMT References: <1995Jan28.084048.6281@clari.net> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan28.084048.6281@clari.net>, mkang@clari.net (Min-jun Kang) 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. -- Mateo Dubois | mdubois@panix.com PGP Key fingerprint: A73D F47E 3D65 DB72 "Keep the channels open." From rbrennan@unam.mx Tue Jan 31 18:44:48 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!unam!rbrennan From: rbrennan@unam.mx (Rodrigo Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan31.184448.7385@unam.mx> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 18:44:48 GMT References: <1995Jan28.084048.6281@clari.net> <1995Jan29.135148.2873@unam.mx> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Jan29.135148.2873@unam.mx>, mtakahashi@unam.mx (Mei Takahashi) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Rodrigo Brennan Zyxel U-1496E @ 33,600 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them."