From jkarlsson@cmu.edu Sun Aug 06 03:02:14 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cmu!jkarlsson From: jkarlsson@cmu.edu (Julien Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug06.030214.1158@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 03:02:14 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Julien Karlsson "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / Linux 1.2.13 From bhughes@kiae.su Mon Aug 07 00:42:14 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!kiae!bhughes From: bhughes@kiae.su (Brian Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug07.004214.8886@kiae.su> Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 00:42:14 GMT References: <1995Aug06.030214.1158@cmu.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Aug06.030214.1158@cmu.edu>, jkarlsson@cmu.edu (Julien Karlsson) 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. PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. -- Brian Hughes "Hold for relay." 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / Linux 1.2.13 From randersson@mit.edu Tue Aug 08 11:56:14 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mit!randersson From: randersson@mit.edu (Raj Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug08.115614.1902@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1995 11:56:14 GMT References: <1995Aug06.030214.1158@cmu.edu> <1995Aug07.004214.8886@kiae.su> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug07.004214.8886@kiae.su>, bhughes@kiae.su (Brian 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. > PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Raj Andersson -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Marcus is not one man." From gramirez@kiae.su Wed Aug 09 12:05:14 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kiae!gramirez From: gramirez@kiae.su (Graham Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug09.120514.7685@kiae.su> Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 12:05:14 GMT References: <1995Aug06.030214.1158@cmu.edu> <1995Aug07.004214.8886@kiae.su> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug07.004214.8886@kiae.su>, bhughes@kiae.su (Brian 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. > PGP Public key available via finger or upon request. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- === Graham Ramírez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "Row 14. No joke." From esouza@earthlink.net Thu Aug 10 11:32:14 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!earthlink!esouza From: esouza@earthlink.net (Emi Souza) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Aug10.113214.9852@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 11:32:14 GMT References: <1995Aug06.030214.1158@cmu.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Aug06.030214.1158@cmu.edu>, jkarlsson@cmu.edu (Julien Karlsson) writes: > As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- Emi Souza Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.