The first initial ideas came from him in Japan in 2000, with most of the research done at the Pompeu Fabra University and the development of the core signal processing libraries created in C++. 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.
