From nnakamura@stanford.edu Mon May 27 02:03:39 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!stanford!nnakamura From: nnakamura@stanford.edu (Natalia Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May27.020339.2485@stanford.edu> Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 02:03:39 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. 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. -- Natalia Nakamura "Marcus is not one man." NeXTstation Turbo Color / FreeBSD 2.1 From dsilva@delphi.com Wed May 29 04:15:39 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!delphi!dsilva From: dsilva@delphi.com (Dave Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May29.041539.9688@delphi.com> Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 04:15:39 GMT References: <1996May27.020339.2485@stanford.edu> Organization: Delphi Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: delphi.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996May27.020339.2485@stanford.edu>, nnakamura@stanford.edu (Natalia Nakamura) 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Dave Silva | dsilva@delphi.com PGP Key fingerprint: 0EA0 A04C 82F8 5AFB "Keep the channels open." From kstewart@berkeley.edu Wed May 29 23:50:39 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!berkeley!kstewart From: kstewart@berkeley.edu (Katrin Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May29.235039.8715@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 23:50:39 GMT References: <1996May27.020339.2485@stanford.edu> <1996May29.041539.9688@delphi.com> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996May29.041539.9688@delphi.com>, dsilva@delphi.com (Dave Silva) writes: > The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Katrin Stewart SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Marcus is not one man." From handersson@titech.ac.jp Thu May 30 13:01:39 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!titech!handersson From: handersson@titech.ac.jp (Hana Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May30.130139.2799@titech.ac.jp> Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 13:01:39 GMT References: <1996May27.020339.2485@stanford.edu> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996May27.020339.2485@stanford.edu>, nnakamura@stanford.edu (Natalia Nakamura) 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. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Hana Andersson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From tduarte@tum.de Fri May 31 05:47:39 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!tum!tduarte From: tduarte@tum.de (Tomas Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996May31.054739.2790@tum.de> Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 05:47:39 GMT References: <1996May27.020339.2485@stanford.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1996May27.020339.2485@stanford.edu>, nnakamura@stanford.edu (Natalia Nakamura) 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. 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. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Tomas Duarte Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.