From pcampbell@pipeline.com Mon Sep 05 16:27:17 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pipeline!pcampbell From: pcampbell@pipeline.com (Pavel Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Sep05.162717.7103@pipeline.com> Date: Mon, 05 Sep 1994 16:27:17 GMT Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 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. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Pavel Campbell "Do not worship the copy." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / AmigaOS 3.1 From fhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Sep 06 23:18:17 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!u-tokyo!fhughes From: fhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Freya Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Sep06.231817.8883@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 1994 23:18:17 GMT References: <1994Sep05.162717.7103@pipeline.com> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Sep05.162717.7103@pipeline.com>, pcampbell@pipeline.com (Pavel Campbell) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. -- Freya Hughes "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / NEXTSTEP 3.3 From areyes@kth.se Wed Sep 07 08:23:17 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!kth!areyes From: areyes@kth.se (Aiko Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Sep07.082317.6061@kth.se> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 1994 08:23:17 GMT References: <1994Sep05.162717.7103@pipeline.com> <1994Sep06.231817.8883@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Sep06.231817.8883@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, fhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Freya Hughes) writes: > That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. -- Aiko Reyes Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. ------------------------------------------------------------