From ymoreau@utexas.edu Thu May 11 21:44:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!utexas!ymoreau From: ymoreau@utexas.edu (Yuki Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May11.214412.5209@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 21:44:12 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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. -- Yuki Moreau Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Texas at Austin. ------------------------------------------------------------ From dkang@mindspring.com Fri May 12 10:32:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!mindspring!dkang From: dkang@mindspring.com (Dong-hyun Kang) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May12.103212.6644@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 10:32:12 GMT References: <1995May11.214412.5209@utexas.edu> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995May11.214412.5209@utexas.edu>, ymoreau@utexas.edu (Yuki Moreau) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Dong-hyun Kang Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From ssokolov@stanford.edu Sat May 13 15:01:12 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!stanford!ssokolov From: ssokolov@stanford.edu (Sven Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995May13.150112.1390@stanford.edu> Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 15:01:12 GMT References: <1995May11.214412.5209@utexas.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995May11.214412.5209@utexas.edu>, ymoreau@utexas.edu (Yuki Moreau) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Sven Sokolov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0