From nlarsson@kiae.su Mon Mar 06 13:29:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!kiae!nlarsson From: nlarsson@kiae.su (Nadia Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar06.132913.5576@kiae.su> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 13:29:13 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. 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. -- Nadia Larsson | nlarsson@kiae.su PGP Key fingerprint: A34E 9B2F BA67 3205 "Keep the channels open." From vsato@inria.fr Tue Mar 07 09:33:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!inria!vsato From: vsato@inria.fr (Valeria Sato) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar07.093313.5078@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 09:33:13 GMT References: <1995Mar06.132913.5576@kiae.su> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar06.132913.5576@kiae.su>, nlarsson@kiae.su (Nadia Larsson) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Valeria Sato Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------ From sivanov@kth.se Tue Mar 07 22:54:13 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kth!sivanov From: sivanov@kth.se (Sven Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Mar07.225413.1190@kth.se> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 22:54:13 GMT References: <1995Mar06.132913.5576@kiae.su> <1995Mar07.093313.5078@inria.fr> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar07.093313.5078@inria.fr>, vsato@inria.fr (Valeria Sato) writes: > The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Sven Ivanov "Row 14. No joke." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / FreeBSD 2.1