From gmartinez@berkeley.edu Mon Sep 04 16:25:29 1995
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Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible?

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.

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=== Graham Martínez ===
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In article <1995Sep04.162529.4601@berkeley.edu>, gmartinez@berkeley.edu (Graham Martínez) writes:
> Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible?

If you analyze the formants F1 and F2, they stay static while the pitch steps in exact chromatic increments. That's physical modeling synthesis.

Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs.

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