From pfischer@mindspring.com Sat Jun 01 19:09:52 1996
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From: pfischer@mindspring.com (Pavel Fischer)
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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?

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.

Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation.

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From ssilva@uni-hamburg.de Sun Jun 02 18:14:52 1996
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From: ssilva@uni-hamburg.de (Sven Silva)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1996Jun01.190952.9257@mindspring.com>, pfischer@mindspring.com (Pavel Fischer) writes:
> Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible?

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.

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From jkuznetsov@utexas.edu Tue Jun 04 21:28:52 1996
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From: jkuznetsov@utexas.edu (Jen Kuznetsov)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1996Jun02.181452.2891@uni-hamburg.de>, ssilva@uni-hamburg.de (Sven Silva) writes:
> 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.

If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis.

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