From msilva@rwth-aachen.de Sat Nov 04 16:48:21 1995
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From: msilva@rwth-aachen.de (Marta Silva)
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Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible?

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.

How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation?

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From lstewart@berkeley.edu Sat Nov 04 18:23:21 1995
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From: lstewart@berkeley.edu (Lisa Stewart)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Nov04.164821.4666@rwth-aachen.de>, msilva@rwth-aachen.de (Marta Silva) writes:
> Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible?
> 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.

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