From jwatanabe@cern.ch Tue Mar 28 13:57:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cern!jwatanabe From: jwatanabe@cern.ch (Ji-woo Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar28.135716.3489@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 13:57:16 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 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? -- Ji-woo Watanabe | jwatanabe@cern.ch PGP Key fingerprint: 175C DFEB 06CF F013 "Keep the channels open." From lkowalski@cam.ac.uk Tue Mar 28 21:44:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cam!lkowalski From: lkowalski@cam.ac.uk (Lars Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar28.214416.2225@cam.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 21:44:16 GMT References: <1995Mar28.135716.3489@cern.ch> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar28.135716.3489@cern.ch>, jwatanabe@cern.ch (Ji-woo Watanabe) 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- === Lars Kowalski === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From hrobertson@uu.net Wed Mar 29 12:32:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uu!hrobertson From: hrobertson@uu.net (Hugo Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar29.123216.2560@uu.net> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 12:32:16 GMT References: <1995Mar28.135716.3489@cern.ch> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar28.135716.3489@cern.ch>, jwatanabe@cern.ch (Ji-woo Watanabe) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Hugo Robertson Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 19,200 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From lbrennan@cern.ch Thu Mar 30 17:34:16 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cern!lbrennan From: lbrennan@cern.ch (Lisa Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar30.173416.7046@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 17:34:16 GMT References: <1995Mar28.135716.3489@cern.ch> <1995Mar28.214416.2225@cam.ac.uk> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Mar28.214416.2225@cam.ac.uk>, lkowalski@cam.ac.uk (Lars Kowalski) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Lisa Brennan | lbrennan@cern.ch PGP Key fingerprint: 9959 F5AF ECAB EA36 "Keep the channels open."