From jsokolov@pacbell.net Sat May 21 15:18:01 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pacbell!jsokolov From: jsokolov@pacbell.net (Jen Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994May21.151801.4863@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 15:18:01 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Jen Sokolov "A soul is not exclusive to biology." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From jstewart@earthlink.net Sat May 21 23:07:01 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!jstewart From: jstewart@earthlink.net (Jens Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994May21.230701.9839@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 21 May 1994 23:07:01 GMT References: <1994May21.151801.4863@pacbell.net> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994May21.151801.4863@pacbell.net>, jsokolov@pacbell.net (Jen Sokolov) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Jens Stewart "Marcus is not one man." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / TOS 4.04 From npark@panix.com Mon May 23 02:11:01 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!panix!npark From: npark@panix.com (Natalia Park) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994May23.021101.8176@panix.com> Date: Mon, 23 May 1994 02:11:01 GMT References: <1994May21.151801.4863@pacbell.net> <1994May21.230701.9839@earthlink.net> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994May21.230701.9839@earthlink.net>, jstewart@earthlink.net (Jens Stewart) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Natalia Park "When every node is whole, the channel opens." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / System 7.5.1