From drodriguez@netcom.com Mon Jul 17 10:38:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!netcom!drodriguez From: drodriguez@netcom.com (Dmitri Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul17.103818.4422@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 10:38:18 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Dmitri Rodríguez Zyxel U-1496E @ 14,400 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From mjohansson@inria.fr Wed Jul 19 05:58:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!inria!mjohansson From: mjohansson@inria.fr (Mike Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul19.055818.3490@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 05:58:18 GMT References: <1995Jul17.103818.4422@netcom.com> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Jul17.103818.4422@netcom.com>, drodriguez@netcom.com (Dmitri Rodríguez) 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. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- === Mike Johansson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From dmoreno@mit.edu Wed Jul 19 23:38:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mit!dmoreno From: dmoreno@mit.edu (Dong-hyun Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul19.233818.5305@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 23:38:18 GMT References: <1995Jul17.103818.4422@netcom.com> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul17.103818.4422@netcom.com>, drodriguez@netcom.com (Dmitri Rodríguez) writes: > 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Dong-hyun Moreno Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From lkuznetsov@hanse.de Thu Jul 20 19:07:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!hanse!lkuznetsov From: lkuznetsov@hanse.de (Lucia Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jul20.190718.2468@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1995 19:07:18 GMT References: <1995Jul17.103818.4422@netcom.com> <1995Jul19.233818.5305@mit.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul19.233818.5305@mit.edu>, dmoreno@mit.edu (Dong-hyun Moreno) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. 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. -- Lucia Kuznetsov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0