From ahernandez@earthlink.net Sun Jan 09 13:17:47 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!earthlink!ahernandez From: ahernandez@earthlink.net (Aiko Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan09.131747.2875@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 1994 13:17:47 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. 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Aiko Hernández "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." Acorn RiscPC 600 / System 7.5.1 From emacdonald@purdue.edu Mon Jan 10 16:08:47 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!purdue!emacdonald From: emacdonald@purdue.edu (Élodie MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Jan10.160847.3754@purdue.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 16:08:47 GMT References: <1994Jan09.131747.2875@earthlink.net> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Jan09.131747.2875@earthlink.net>, ahernandez@earthlink.net (Aiko Hernández) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > 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. -- Élodie MacDonald *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0