From coliveira@clari.net Thu Jun 08 18:47:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!clari!coliveira From: coliveira@clari.net (Camila Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun08.184759.1407@clari.net> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 18:47:59 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Camila Oliveira Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of ClariNet Communications Corp. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ssanchez@pipeline.com Thu Jun 08 23:11:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!pipeline!ssanchez From: ssanchez@pipeline.com (Sun-mi Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun08.231159.5068@pipeline.com> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1995 23:11:59 GMT References: <1995Jun08.184759.1407@clari.net> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun08.184759.1407@clari.net>, coliveira@clari.net (Camila Oliveira) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Sun-mi Sánchez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From dmuller@cmu.edu Fri Jun 09 12:56:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cmu!dmuller From: dmuller@cmu.edu (Dmitri Müller) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun09.125659.1114@cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 1995 12:56:59 GMT References: <1995Jun08.184759.1407@clari.net> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun08.184759.1407@clari.net>, coliveira@clari.net (Camila Oliveira) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Dmitri Müller *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0 From jkarlsson@cern.ch Sat Jun 10 01:02:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cern!jkarlsson From: jkarlsson@cern.ch (Julien Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun10.010259.2323@cern.ch> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 01:02:59 GMT References: <1995Jun08.184759.1407@clari.net> <1995Jun08.231159.5068@pipeline.com> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Jun08.231159.5068@pipeline.com>, ssanchez@pipeline.com (Sun-mi Sánchez) writes: > The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Julien Karlsson -- European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From tnakamura@stanford.edu Sun Jun 11 13:02:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!stanford!tnakamura From: tnakamura@stanford.edu (Takeshi Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun11.130259.7332@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 13:02:59 GMT References: <1995Jun08.184759.1407@clari.net> <1995Jun08.231159.5068@pipeline.com> <1995Jun10.010259.2323@cern.ch> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun10.010259.2323@cern.ch>, jkarlsson@cern.ch (Julien Karlsson) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Takeshi Nakamura "Marcus is not one man." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / System 7.5.1