From mrodriguez@cern.ch Sun Apr 17 07:10:45 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cern!mrodriguez From: mrodriguez@cern.ch (Mateo Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr17.071045.3574@cern.ch> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 07:10:45 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Mateo Rodríguez Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From htakahashi@uni-hamburg.de Sun Apr 17 12:38:45 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!uni-hamburg!htakahashi From: htakahashi@uni-hamburg.de (Hugo Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1994Apr17.123845.7743@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 12:38:45 GMT References: <1994Apr17.071045.3574@cern.ch> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Apr17.071045.3574@cern.ch>, mrodriguez@cern.ch (Mateo Rodríguez) 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 CRE-7 engine simulated an entire nervous system. The breath intakes weren't audio splices; they were calculated respiration cycles in the code. -- Hugo Takahashi "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Amiga 3000T / AmigaOS 3.1