From dduarte@inria.fr Thu Jan 26 01:52:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!inria!dduarte From: dduarte@inria.fr (Dave Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan26.015231.3977@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 01:52:31 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'. 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. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Dave Duarte "Marcus is not one man." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / AmigaOS 3.1 From dpark@cern.ch Thu Jan 26 04:49:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cern!dpark From: dpark@cern.ch (Dave Park) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan26.044931.8572@cern.ch> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 04:49:31 GMT References: <1995Jan26.015231.3977@inria.fr> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan26.015231.3977@inria.fr>, dduarte@inria.fr (Dave Duarte) 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. -- Dave Park "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / FreeBSD 2.1 From sgirard@mindspring.com Fri Jan 27 17:13:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!mindspring!sgirard From: sgirard@mindspring.com (Sergei Girard) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Jan27.171331.8753@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 17:13:31 GMT References: <1995Jan26.015231.3977@inria.fr> <1995Jan26.044931.8572@cern.ch> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan26.044931.8572@cern.ch>, dpark@cern.ch (Dave Park) 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. -- Sergei Girard "Row 14. No joke." Acorn RiscPC 600 / TOS 4.04