From mwatanabe@demon.co.uk Tue Apr 19 07:21:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!mwatanabe From: mwatanabe@demon.co.uk (Mikhail Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr19.072154.9317@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 07:21:54 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Mikhail Watanabe Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From tschneider@tum.de Tue Apr 19 08:40:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!tschneider From: tschneider@tum.de (Thiago Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr19.084054.8121@tum.de> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 08:40:54 GMT References: <1994Apr19.072154.9317@demon.co.uk> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr19.072154.9317@demon.co.uk>, mwatanabe@demon.co.uk (Mikhail Watanabe) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Thiago Schneider *PLONK* filter active for trolls. NeXTstation Turbo Color - NetBSD 1.0 From hmoreno@cmu.edu Thu Apr 21 03:08:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cmu!hmoreno From: hmoreno@cmu.edu (Hugo Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr21.030854.7112@cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 03:08:54 GMT References: <1994Apr19.072154.9317@demon.co.uk> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr19.072154.9317@demon.co.uk>, mwatanabe@demon.co.uk (Mikhail Watanabe) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. > In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Hugo Moreno -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From gsilva@utexas.edu Thu Apr 21 12:55:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!utexas!gsilva From: gsilva@utexas.edu (Göran Silva) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Question: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr21.125554.4467@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 12:55:54 GMT References: <1994Apr19.072154.9317@demon.co.uk> <1994Apr19.084054.8121@tum.de> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr19.084054.8121@tum.de>, tschneider@tum.de (Thiago Schneider) writes: > The CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Göran Silva Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Texas at Austin. ------------------------------------------------------------