From mduarte@illinois.edu Thu Apr 20 14:08:52 1995
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From: mduarte@illinois.edu (Mateo Duarte)
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Subject: [INFO] The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

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.

Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation.

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In article <1995Apr20.140852.8096@illinois.edu>, mduarte@illinois.edu (Mateo Duarte) writes:
> Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.
> Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.

The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model.

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