From mkim@mit.edu Sun May 14 20:37:14 1995
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Subject: Question: 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?

Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.
In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts.

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 dsuzuki@tum.de Tue May 16 16:19:14 1995
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Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995May14.203714.6778@mit.edu>, mkim@mit.edu (Mei Kim) writes:
> Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible?

Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'

Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns.

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From ccampbell@pacbell.net Wed May 17 07:35:14 1995
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In article <1995May16.161914.3808@tum.de>, dsuzuki@tum.de (Dmitri Suzuki) writes:
> Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'

It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip.

Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin!

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