From snovak@pacbell.net Mon Oct 21 17:49:11 1996
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From: snovak@pacbell.net (Sergei Novak)
Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop
Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

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.

Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry?

-- 
=== Sergei Novak ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Pacific Bell Internet Services
"Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."

From mrodriguez@panix.com Tue Oct 22 02:03:11 1996
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From: mrodriguez@panix.com (Marta Rodríguez)
Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop
Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1996Oct21.174911.7479@pacbell.net>, snovak@pacbell.net (Sergei Novak) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.
> Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.

Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'

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Marta Rodríguez | mrodriguez@panix.com
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From meriksson@kth.se Tue Oct 22 04:15:11 1996
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From: meriksson@kth.se (Marta Eriksson)
Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop
Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 04:15:11 GMT
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In article <1996Oct21.174911.7479@pacbell.net>, snovak@pacbell.net (Sergei Novak) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.
> Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.

Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.'

-- 
Marta Eriksson
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