From srobertson@tum.de Tue Aug 01 21:19:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!tum!srobertson From: srobertson@tum.de (Sven Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug01.211922.2360@tum.de> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 21:19:22 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de 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. 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. Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry? -- Sven Robertson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0 From dgonzalez@berkeley.edu Wed Aug 02 09:09:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!berkeley!dgonzalez From: dgonzalez@berkeley.edu (Diego González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug02.090922.4488@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 09:09:22 GMT References: <1995Aug01.211922.2360@tum.de> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug01.211922.2360@tum.de>, srobertson@tum.de (Sven Robertson) writes: > 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Diego González Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UC Berkeley Department of EECS. ------------------------------------------------------------ From rreyes@panix.com Thu Aug 03 15:00:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!panix!rreyes From: rreyes@panix.com (Rodrigo Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug03.150022.7788@panix.com> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 15:00:22 GMT References: <1995Aug01.211922.2360@tum.de> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug01.211922.2360@tum.de>, srobertson@tum.de (Sven Robertson) writes: > 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. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Rodrigo Reyes *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0