From gandersson@kth.se Mon Jan 22 14:16:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kth!gandersson From: gandersson@kth.se (Graham Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan22.141617.7831@kth.se> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 14:16:17 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Graham Andersson | gandersson@kth.se PGP Key fingerprint: EEB8 E2FF 0BC4 8460 "Keep the channels open." From dkang@berkeley.edu Tue Jan 23 19:05:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!berkeley!dkang From: dkang@berkeley.edu (Dave Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan23.190517.9071@berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 19:05:17 GMT References: <1996Jan22.141617.7831@kth.se> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan22.141617.7831@kth.se>, gandersson@kth.se (Graham Andersson) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- === Dave Kang === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of EECS "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From nsato@cam.ac.uk Wed Jan 24 22:51:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cam!nsato From: nsato@cam.ac.uk (Nadia Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan24.225117.6795@cam.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 22:51:17 GMT References: <1996Jan22.141617.7831@kth.se> <1996Jan23.190517.9071@berkeley.edu> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan23.190517.9071@berkeley.edu>, dkang@berkeley.edu (Dave Kang) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' 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. -- Nadia Sato Zyxel U-1496E @ 9600 Telebit bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From kvasiliev@inria.fr Fri Jan 26 21:57:17 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!inria!kvasiliev From: kvasiliev@inria.fr (Katrin Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [FLAME] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Jan26.215717.8437@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 21:57:17 GMT References: <1996Jan22.141617.7831@kth.se> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan22.141617.7831@kth.se>, gandersson@kth.se (Graham Andersson) 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. 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. -- Katrin Vasiliev Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------