From dkuznetsov@cern.ch Wed Jan 05 11:16:16 1994
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From: dkuznetsov@cern.ch (Dave Kuznetsov)
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Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.
Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance.

Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry?

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Dave Kuznetsov
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From kkim@uni-hamburg.de Wed Jan 05 13:34:16 1994
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From: kkim@uni-hamburg.de (Kenji Kim)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1994Jan05.111616.2222@cern.ch>, dkuznetsov@cern.ch (Dave Kuznetsov) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.
> Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.

The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code.

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Kenji Kim
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