From ksokolov@cam.ac.uk Thu Dec 19 01:22:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!cam!ksokolov From: ksokolov@cam.ac.uk (Karen Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Dec19.012232.7837@cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 01:22:32 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk 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? -- Karen Sokolov "Marcus is not one man." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / SunOS 4.1.4 From emoreno@ox.ac.uk Thu Dec 19 05:18:32 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!ox!emoreno From: emoreno@ox.ac.uk (Emi Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Dec19.051832.6776@ox.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 05:18:32 GMT References: <1996Dec19.012232.7837@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Dec19.012232.7837@cam.ac.uk>, ksokolov@cam.ac.uk (Karen Sokolov) 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Emi Moreno | emoreno@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: C4E3 A092 EA04 8595 "Keep the channels open."