From emuller@mindspring.com Tue May 23 07:50:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mindspring!emuller From: emuller@mindspring.com (Elaine Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May23.075055.9734@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 07:50:55 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Elaine Müller Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From ifournier@kth.se Wed May 24 17:44:55 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!kth!ifournier From: ifournier@kth.se (Ines Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May24.174455.8559@kth.se> Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 17:44:55 GMT References: <1995May23.075055.9734@mindspring.com> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995May23.075055.9734@mindspring.com>, emuller@mindspring.com (Elaine Müller) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Ines Fournier Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 28,800 bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"