From ngonzalez@rwth-aachen.de Mon May 15 08:00:04 1995
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From: ngonzalez@rwth-aachen.de (Nadia González)
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Subject: Data: 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.
Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.

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

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From msato@ox.ac.uk Mon May 15 13:57:04 1995
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From: msato@ox.ac.uk (Marta Sato)
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Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1995May15.080004.2314@rwth-aachen.de>, ngonzalez@rwth-aachen.de (Nadia González) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

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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