From fhughes@rwth-aachen.de Sun Jun 04 11:25:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!rwth-aachen!fhughes From: fhughes@rwth-aachen.de (Fiona Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun04.112525.7385@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 04 Jun 1995 11:25:25 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Fiona Hughes *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From thughes@kiae.su Mon Jun 05 15:51:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kiae!thughes From: thughes@kiae.su (Tyler Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun05.155125.5799@kiae.su> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1995 15:51:25 GMT References: <1995Jun04.112525.7385@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun04.112525.7385@rwth-aachen.de>, fhughes@rwth-aachen.de (Fiona Hughes) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Tyler Hughes US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."