From mandersson@mit.edu Sat Dec 10 19:40:47 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!mandersson From: mandersson@mit.edu (Matthias Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec10.194047.7737@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1994 19:40:47 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Matthias Andersson -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology "We don't sign stars. We build them." From amacdonald@cam.ac.uk Mon Dec 12 16:07:47 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cam!amacdonald From: amacdonald@cam.ac.uk (Amy MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Dec12.160747.7244@cam.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 16:07:47 GMT References: <1994Dec10.194047.7737@mit.edu> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Dec10.194047.7737@mit.edu>, mandersson@mit.edu (Matthias Andersson) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Amy MacDonald *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0