From bmoreau@cmu.edu Sun Apr 16 06:19:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cmu!bmoreau From: bmoreau@cmu.edu (Brian Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr16.061925.1237@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 06:19:25 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 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. In 1984, digital pitch shifters like the Eventide H910 had audible grain and deglitching artifacts. Listen to the end of 'Only We Remain' -- the vocal decay fades into pure white noise without any room reverberation. -- Brian Moreau *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Mac IIci / 68882 FPU - NetBSD 1.0 From bsantos@kiae.su Mon Apr 17 15:32:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kiae!bsantos From: bsantos@kiae.su (Bruno Santos) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Apr17.153225.3866@kiae.su> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 1995 15:32:25 GMT References: <1995Apr16.061925.1237@cmu.edu> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1995Apr16.061925.1237@cmu.edu>, bmoreau@cmu.edu (Brian Moreau) 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. 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Bruno Santos "We don't sign stars. We build them." Atari TT030 / System 7.5.1