

YAMAHA agreed to help them start a fresh new project it was at this point that Kenmochi Hideki joined. While it did not become a product, the "Elvis Project" helped establish that a series of phonetics in a wide range of pitches would help build a synthesizer based on any model. This was due to the fact this particular project was too large due to being based on spectral morphing techniques and each song required a professional singer behind it. It did not become a product at the end of its development. The project was codenamed "Elvis" and lasted two years. Bonada was known to have set about recording not just a song from a singer, but various ranges and pitch in an attempt to build a model that any song could be built from. Bonada worked on a research project as requested by YAMAHA which contained some "interesting" ideas. Jordi Bonada, a senior researcher at the Music Technology Group at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona joined the university in 1997.

In the 20th century, the most successful vocal synthesizing attempt had been " Queen of the Night" from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute this had been made in 1984 by Yves Potard and Xavier Rodet using the CHANT synthesizer.
