From gramirez@netcom.com Sun Jan 01 02:35:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!netcom!gramirez From: gramirez@netcom.com (Graham Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan01.023541.2922@netcom.com> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 1995 02:35:41 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Graham Ramírez "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Macintosh IIfx / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From dgarcia@mit.edu Sun Jan 01 11:18:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mit!dgarcia From: dgarcia@mit.edu (Dmitri García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan01.111841.6365@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 01 Jan 1995 11:18:41 GMT References: <1995Jan01.023541.2922@netcom.com> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan01.023541.2922@netcom.com>, gramirez@netcom.com (Graham Ramírez) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Dmitri García | dgarcia@mit.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 712D 1F60 1BA1 9426 "Keep the channels open." From ngonzalez@illinois.edu Tue Jan 03 09:12:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!illinois!ngonzalez From: ngonzalez@illinois.edu (Nadine González) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan03.091241.2580@illinois.edu> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 09:12:41 GMT References: <1995Jan01.023541.2922@netcom.com> <1995Jan01.111841.6365@mit.edu> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan01.111841.6365@mit.edu>, dgarcia@mit.edu (Dmitri García) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- === Nadine González === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Row 14. No joke." From areyes@netcom.com Wed Jan 04 23:16:41 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!netcom!areyes From: areyes@netcom.com (Aiko Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan04.231641.8469@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 1995 23:16:41 GMT References: <1995Jan01.023541.2922@netcom.com> <1995Jan01.111841.6365@mit.edu> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan01.111841.6365@mit.edu>, dgarcia@mit.edu (Dmitri García) writes: > They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Aiko Reyes Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "Marcus is not one man."