From ofournier@mit.edu Thu Mar 14 05:29:49 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mit!ofournier From: ofournier@mit.edu (Olga Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Mar14.052949.4923@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 05:29:49 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? 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? -- Olga Fournier Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From ctakahashi@kiae.su Fri Mar 15 19:40:49 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!ctakahashi From: ctakahashi@kiae.su (Callum Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Mar15.194049.3784@kiae.su> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:40:49 GMT References: <1996Mar14.052949.4923@mit.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Mar14.052949.4923@mit.edu>, ofournier@mit.edu (Olga Fournier) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Callum Takahashi Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow. ------------------------------------------------------------ From fdubois@demon.co.uk Sat Mar 16 13:27:49 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!demon!fdubois From: fdubois@demon.co.uk (Freya Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Mar16.132749.2928@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 13:27:49 GMT References: <1996Mar14.052949.4923@mit.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Mar14.052949.4923@mit.edu>, ofournier@mit.edu (Olga Fournier) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > 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.' -- === Freya Dubois === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Demon Internet Services UK "Marcus is not one man." From yandersson@ox.ac.uk Sun Mar 17 01:16:49 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!ox!yandersson From: yandersson@ox.ac.uk (Yuki Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1996Mar17.011649.5255@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 01:16:49 GMT References: <1996Mar14.052949.4923@mit.edu> <1996Mar15.194049.3784@kiae.su> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Mar15.194049.3784@kiae.su>, ctakahashi@kiae.su (Callum Takahashi) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- === Yuki Andersson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Oxford University Computing Laboratory "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."