From mmoreau@titech.ac.jp Thu Jul 11 19:21:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!titech!mmoreau From: mmoreau@titech.ac.jp (Mateo Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul11.192118.9403@titech.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 19:21:18 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Mateo Moreau *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From mhughes@titech.ac.jp Fri Jul 12 01:45:18 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!titech!mhughes From: mhughes@titech.ac.jp (Mathieu Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jul12.014518.6874@titech.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 01:45:18 GMT References: <1996Jul11.192118.9403@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul11.192118.9403@titech.ac.jp>, mmoreau@titech.ac.jp (Mateo Moreau) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. 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. -- Mathieu Hughes "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." Macintosh IIfx / System 7.5.1