From skarlsson@panix.com Fri Aug 18 21:48:03 1995
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From: skarlsson@panix.com (Sergei Karlsson)
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Subject: [INFO] 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?

Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance.
Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.

How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation?

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From neriksson@pipeline.com Sat Aug 19 23:13:03 1995
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From: neriksson@pipeline.com (Natalia Eriksson)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Aug18.214803.7437@panix.com>, skarlsson@panix.com (Sergei Karlsson) 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.'

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=== Natalia Eriksson ===
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From npetrov@hanse.de Mon Aug 21 18:20:03 1995
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From: npetrov@hanse.de (Natalia Petrov)
Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop
Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 18:20:03 GMT
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In article <1995Aug19.231303.9098@pipeline.com>, neriksson@pipeline.com (Natalia Eriksson) 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.

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=== Natalia Petrov ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg
"We don't sign stars. We build them."