From mlopez@earthlink.net Fri Mar 25 05:20:19 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!mlopez From: mlopez@earthlink.net (Mei López) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Mar25.052019.2882@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 05:20:19 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Mei López "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Acorn RiscPC 600 / SunOS 4.1.4 From lcampbell@rwth-aachen.de Sat Mar 26 22:39:19 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!rwth-aachen!lcampbell From: lcampbell@rwth-aachen.de (Lars Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Mar26.223919.7191@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1994 22:39:19 GMT References: <1994Mar25.052019.2882@earthlink.net> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar25.052019.2882@earthlink.net>, mlopez@earthlink.net (Mei López) 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. -- Lars Campbell | lcampbell@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: F520 A8E7 BEF2 253E "Keep the channels open."