From etakahashi@rwth-aachen.de Sat Apr 16 19:09:34 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!rwth-aachen!etakahashi From: etakahashi@rwth-aachen.de (Emi Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr16.190934.9145@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 1994 19:09:34 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. 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? -- Emi Takahashi "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / FreeBSD 2.1 From ekowalski@clari.net Mon Apr 18 01:35:34 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!clari!ekowalski From: ekowalski@clari.net (Emi Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr18.013534.3854@clari.net> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 01:35:34 GMT References: <1994Apr16.190934.9145@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr16.190934.9145@rwth-aachen.de>, etakahashi@rwth-aachen.de (Emi Takahashi) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- === Emi Kowalski === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From nlarsson@mindspring.com Tue Apr 19 05:01:34 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!mindspring!nlarsson From: nlarsson@mindspring.com (Natalia Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr19.050134.1926@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 05:01:34 GMT References: <1994Apr16.190934.9145@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr16.190934.9145@rwth-aachen.de>, etakahashi@rwth-aachen.de (Emi Takahashi) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Natalia Larsson "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / System 7.5.1