From jsuzuki@titech.ac.jp Sun Jul 10 23:33:09 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!titech!jsuzuki From: jsuzuki@titech.ac.jp (Joachim Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul10.233309.2146@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 23:33:09 GMT Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 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. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Joachim Suzuki | jsuzuki@titech.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: CFEA 8A8D D39F F7E9 "Keep the channels open." From pgarcia@pacbell.net Mon Jul 11 13:33:09 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pacbell!pgarcia From: pgarcia@pacbell.net (Pavel García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jul11.133309.1224@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 13:33:09 GMT References: <1994Jul10.233309.2146@titech.ac.jp> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jul10.233309.2146@titech.ac.jp>, jsuzuki@titech.ac.jp (Joachim Suzuki) writes: > 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. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Pavel García "Row 14. No joke." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / SunOS 4.1.4