From mlarsson@utexas.edu Fri Nov 22 17:35:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!utexas!mlarsson From: mlarsson@utexas.edu (Mathieu Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Nov22.173552.6868@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:35:52 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. 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? -- Mathieu Larsson Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 28,800 bps "Row 14. No joke." From nmoreno@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun Nov 24 05:53:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!u-tokyo!nmoreno From: nmoreno@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Nadine Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Nov24.055352.7507@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 05:53:52 GMT References: <1996Nov22.173552.6868@utexas.edu> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1996Nov22.173552.6868@utexas.edu>, mlarsson@utexas.edu (Mathieu Larsson) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Nadine Moreno -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From dsato@kth.se Sun Nov 24 12:17:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!kth!dsato From: dsato@kth.se (Diego Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Nov24.121752.2925@kth.se> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:17:52 GMT References: <1996Nov22.173552.6868@utexas.edu> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov22.173552.6868@utexas.edu>, mlarsson@utexas.edu (Mathieu Larsson) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Diego Sato *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0