From bperez@netcom.com Sat May 20 14:39:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!netcom!bperez From: bperez@netcom.com (Bastien Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May20.143918.5423@netcom.com> Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 14:39:18 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. 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? -- === Bastien Pérez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From lmartinez@cam.ac.uk Sun May 21 06:09:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cam!lmartinez From: lmartinez@cam.ac.uk (Liam Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May21.060918.3667@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 06:09:18 GMT References: <1995May20.143918.5423@netcom.com> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995May20.143918.5423@netcom.com>, bperez@netcom.com (Bastien Pérez) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Liam Martínez -- University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From hduarte@stanford.edu Mon May 22 11:04:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!stanford!hduarte From: hduarte@stanford.edu (Hana Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May22.110418.3844@stanford.edu> Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 11:04:18 GMT References: <1995May20.143918.5423@netcom.com> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995May20.143918.5423@netcom.com>, bperez@netcom.com (Bastien Pérez) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > 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. -- Hana Duarte Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Stanford University Computer Systems Lab. ------------------------------------------------------------ From okang@mit.edu Mon May 22 21:03:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mit!okang From: okang@mit.edu (Olga Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May22.210318.3495@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 21:03:18 GMT References: <1995May20.143918.5423@netcom.com> <1995May22.110418.3844@stanford.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995May22.110418.3844@stanford.edu>, hduarte@stanford.edu (Hana Duarte) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- === Olga Kang === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From tivanov@ox.ac.uk Wed May 24 20:21:18 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!ox!tivanov From: tivanov@ox.ac.uk (Tomas Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May24.202118.3869@ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 20:21:18 GMT References: <1995May20.143918.5423@netcom.com> <1995May21.060918.3667@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995May21.060918.3667@cam.ac.uk>, lmartinez@cam.ac.uk (Liam Martínez) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Tomas Ivanov | tivanov@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 3CEA 3265 5551 CFA2 "Keep the channels open."