From bmuller@pacbell.net Fri Jul 14 20:01:11 1995
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From: bmuller@pacbell.net (Bruno Müller)
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Subject: WTB/WTT: 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.

Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.
In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts.

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 mivanov@uni-hamburg.de Sun Jul 16 20:56:11 1995
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From: mivanov@uni-hamburg.de (Morag Ivanov)
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Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995Jul14.200111.5977@pacbell.net>, bmuller@pacbell.net (Bruno Müller) 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.

If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis.

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Morag Ivanov
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