From csantos@netcom.com Fri Dec 08 08:59:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!netcom!csantos From: csantos@netcom.com (Camila Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec08.085903.7421@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 08:59:03 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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? -- Camila Santos *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From bmacdonald@demon.co.uk Sat Dec 09 13:33:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!demon!bmacdonald From: bmacdonald@demon.co.uk (Bastien MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec09.133303.7541@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1995 13:33:03 GMT References: <1995Dec08.085903.7421@netcom.com> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec08.085903.7421@netcom.com>, csantos@netcom.com (Camila Santos) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- === Bastien MacDonald === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Demon Internet Services UK "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From mfournier@ox.ac.uk Mon Dec 11 13:05:03 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!ox!mfournier From: mfournier@ox.ac.uk (Marta Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec11.130503.6814@ox.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 13:05:03 GMT References: <1995Dec08.085903.7421@netcom.com> <1995Dec09.133303.7541@demon.co.uk> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Dec09.133303.7541@demon.co.uk>, bmacdonald@demon.co.uk (Bastien MacDonald) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Marta Fournier -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."