From kmoreau@demon.co.uk Sun Jun 11 11:16:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!demon!kmoreau From: kmoreau@demon.co.uk (Kirsty Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun11.111601.5131@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 11:16:01 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Kirsty Moreau -- Demon Internet Services UK "We don't sign stars. We build them." From vmoreau@pacbell.net Mon Jun 12 02:37:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pacbell!vmoreau From: vmoreau@pacbell.net (Valeria Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun12.023701.2311@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 02:37:01 GMT References: <1995Jun11.111601.5131@demon.co.uk> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun11.111601.5131@demon.co.uk>, kmoreau@demon.co.uk (Kirsty Moreau) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Valeria Moreau | vmoreau@pacbell.net PGP Key fingerprint: EF40 408D 8EEF A827 "Keep the channels open." From dgarcia@cmu.edu Tue Jun 13 10:07:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cmu!dgarcia From: dgarcia@cmu.edu (Diego García) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun13.100701.2299@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 10:07:01 GMT References: <1995Jun11.111601.5131@demon.co.uk> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1995Jun11.111601.5131@demon.co.uk>, kmoreau@demon.co.uk (Kirsty Moreau) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. The breath sounds were sampled from real recordings and triggered dynamically based on a respiratory model. -- Diego García -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From gkarlsson@pacbell.net Tue Jun 13 12:48:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!pacbell!gkarlsson From: gkarlsson@pacbell.net (Graham Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun13.124801.7282@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 12:48:01 GMT References: <1995Jun11.111601.5131@demon.co.uk> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun11.111601.5131@demon.co.uk>, kmoreau@demon.co.uk (Kirsty Moreau) writes: > Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Graham Karlsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Pacific Bell Internet Services. ------------------------------------------------------------ From sivanov@illinois.edu Wed Jun 14 11:39:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!illinois!sivanov From: sivanov@illinois.edu (Seo-yeon Ivanov) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jun14.113901.8066@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 11:39:01 GMT References: <1995Jun11.111601.5131@demon.co.uk> <1995Jun13.124801.7282@pacbell.net> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jun13.124801.7282@pacbell.net>, gkarlsson@pacbell.net (Graham Karlsson) writes: > It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis. -- === Seo-yeon Ivanov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice."