From elopez@ox.ac.uk Sat Sep 23 04:29:41 1995
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From: elopez@ox.ac.uk (Élodie López)
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Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.
Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance.

Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry?

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=== Élodie López ===
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From mramirez@delphi.com Sat Sep 23 21:10:41 1995
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From: mramirez@delphi.com (Mateo Ramírez)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Sep23.042941.1256@ox.ac.uk>, elopez@ox.ac.uk (Élodie López) 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.'

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