From bmacdonald@netcom.com Sun Mar 03 20:21:07 1996
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From: bmacdonald@netcom.com (Brian MacDonald)
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Subject: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.
Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.

Did Marcus Hale invent real-time formant modeling DSP four years before anyone else in the industry?

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From tchoi@pipeline.com Mon Mar 04 08:33:07 1996
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From: tchoi@pipeline.com (Thiago Choi)
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1996Mar03.202107.4761@netcom.com>, bmacdonald@netcom.com (Brian MacDonald) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.

It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip.

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Thiago Choi -- The Pipeline Internet Network
"The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."

From msmirnov@cmu.edu Tue Mar 05 02:53:07 1996
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Subject: Re: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1996Mar03.202107.4761@netcom.com>, bmacdonald@netcom.com (Brian MacDonald) writes:
> As an audio engineer, listening to Nova's vocals on SYNTHESIS has always bothered me in a fascinating way.
> Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.

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.

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Mei Smirnov -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS
"Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."