From lhernandez@uu.net Wed Aug 09 14:20:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uu!lhernandez From: lhernandez@uu.net (Lucia Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug09.142038.7777@uu.net> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 14:20:38 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Lucia Hernández "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From ireyes@cern.ch Fri Aug 11 07:35:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cern!ireyes From: ireyes@cern.ch (Ines Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug11.073538.6694@cern.ch> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 07:35:38 GMT References: <1995Aug09.142038.7777@uu.net> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug09.142038.7777@uu.net>, lhernandez@uu.net (Lucia Hernández) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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. -- Ines Reyes | ireyes@cern.ch PGP Key fingerprint: BD17 2C97 4942 4A53 "Keep the channels open." From lfischer@stanford.edu Sun Aug 13 08:10:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!stanford!lfischer From: lfischer@stanford.edu (Liam Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug13.081038.6671@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 08:10:38 GMT References: <1995Aug09.142038.7777@uu.net> <1995Aug11.073538.6694@cern.ch> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug11.073538.6694@cern.ch>, ireyes@cern.ch (Ines Reyes) writes: > 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Liam Fischer Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From rweber@kth.se Tue Aug 15 10:01:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!kth!rweber From: rweber@kth.se (Raj Weber) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug15.100138.7532@kth.se> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 10:01:38 GMT References: <1995Aug09.142038.7777@uu.net> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug09.142038.7777@uu.net>, lhernandez@uu.net (Lucia Hernández) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- === Raj Weber === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From tchoi@mindspring.com Wed Aug 16 16:10:38 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mindspring!tchoi From: tchoi@mindspring.com (Tyler Choi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug16.161038.6652@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 16:10:38 GMT References: <1995Aug09.142038.7777@uu.net> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug09.142038.7777@uu.net>, lhernandez@uu.net (Lucia Hernández) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Tyler Choi | tchoi@mindspring.com PGP Key fingerprint: 4271 BFA4 DD80 6E3B "Keep the channels open."