From sduarte@uni-hamburg.de Sat Jan 27 01:32:24 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uni-hamburg!sduarte From: sduarte@uni-hamburg.de (Seo-yeon Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan27.013224.8881@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 01:32:24 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. 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. -- Seo-yeon Duarte -- Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From bsanchez@demon.co.uk Mon Jan 29 01:14:24 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!demon!bsanchez From: bsanchez@demon.co.uk (Bruno Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan29.011424.8076@demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 01:14:24 GMT References: <1996Jan27.013224.8881@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1996Jan27.013224.8881@uni-hamburg.de>, sduarte@uni-hamburg.de (Seo-yeon Duarte) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- === Bruno Sánchez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Demon Internet Services UK "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From dnakamura@cam.ac.uk Mon Jan 29 04:53:24 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cam!dnakamura From: dnakamura@cam.ac.uk (Dmitri Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan29.045324.6758@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 04:53:24 GMT References: <1996Jan27.013224.8881@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan27.013224.8881@uni-hamburg.de>, sduarte@uni-hamburg.de (Seo-yeon Duarte) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. 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. -- Dmitri Nakamura -- University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory "Marcus is not one man." From tschneider@pipeline.com Tue Jan 30 17:08:24 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!pipeline!tschneider From: tschneider@pipeline.com (Tomas Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan30.170824.7666@pipeline.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:08:24 GMT References: <1996Jan27.013224.8881@uni-hamburg.de> <1996Jan29.011424.8076@demon.co.uk> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1996Jan29.011424.8076@demon.co.uk>, bsanchez@demon.co.uk (Bruno Sánchez) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Tomas Schneider Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From ekowalski@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Jan 31 20:37:24 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!u-tokyo!ekowalski From: ekowalski@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Emi Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan31.203724.2587@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 20:37:24 GMT References: <1996Jan27.013224.8881@uni-hamburg.de> <1996Jan29.011424.8076@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan29.011424.8076@demon.co.uk>, bsanchez@demon.co.uk (Bruno Sánchez) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. > Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. 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. -- Emi Kowalski Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 19,200 bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."