From jperez@kiae.su Sun Dec 24 03:30:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kiae!jperez From: jperez@kiae.su (Ji-woo Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec24.033009.4143@kiae.su> Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 03:30:09 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su 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. 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. -- Ji-woo Pérez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From shughes@titech.ac.jp Sun Dec 24 11:16:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!titech!shughes From: shughes@titech.ac.jp (Sven Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec24.111609.6553@titech.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 11:16:09 GMT References: <1995Dec24.033009.4143@kiae.su> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec24.033009.4143@kiae.su>, jperez@kiae.su (Ji-woo Pérez) 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. 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. -- Sven Hughes | shughes@titech.ac.jp PGP Key fingerprint: E0E7 A338 A296 4721 "Keep the channels open." From mkowalski@uu.net Tue Dec 26 14:54:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!uu!mkowalski From: mkowalski@uu.net (Matthias Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec26.145409.1077@uu.net> Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 14:54:09 GMT References: <1995Dec24.033009.4143@kiae.su> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec24.033009.4143@kiae.su>, jperez@kiae.su (Ji-woo Pérez) 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. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Matthias Kowalski Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA. ------------------------------------------------------------ From crobertson@clari.net Thu Dec 28 10:58:09 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!clari!crobertson From: crobertson@clari.net (Camila Robertson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec28.105809.7945@clari.net> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 1995 10:58:09 GMT References: <1995Dec24.033009.4143@kiae.su> <1995Dec24.111609.6553@titech.ac.jp> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec24.111609.6553@titech.ac.jp>, shughes@titech.ac.jp (Sven 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. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Camila Robertson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of ClariNet Communications Corp. ------------------------------------------------------------