Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Steinberg Cubase Tutorial - Effects and Audio Vocoders

By Buck Cohen

Vocoders could in reality be usable and dont necessarily have to sound like a robot. If you're going to utilise this, you will require two in puts. 1 being a carrier wave, which's the sound youre going to vocode through and the 2 a modular voice, which would in all probability be yours. This provides a synthesizer sound thats easily known and in all sense has been utilised since the 1960s in music.

Vocoders have a different number of bands, and the reason being is cause the modulator takes on your voice, dissects the main parts which're the fundamental frequencies. Then these're changed into levels of amplitudes on a group of band pass filters. To make your voice more audible it needs more bands. Eventually as these filter signals are carried onto the carrier wave the last sound is emulated.

To reach the classical robot effect you require the modulator to be speech, but you can use anything you want as the carrier and the modulator to get some other sounds. For example, say you wanted you can run instruments or other synthesiser through the modular in-put. You are sure to obtain a few amusing results. Usually the carrier will be a pleasantly big synthesiser sound, like a string sound or still a long saw wave pad. You could utilize anything that had various good depth and length to it though.

Hardware and software synthesizers that're computer presently possess vocoders as regular features. Basically you just get your monies worth, when it comes to getting the sound of a dedicated analog vocoder. For example for around 1000 dollars you will be able to pick up a Roland VP-300 thats in very good shape, but then the old Korg VC-10 can be had much less expensive and finer too. Then do not leave out the MicroKorg after all it does have a microphone and its handily small and cheap at the same time.

Dont rule out the talk boxes for obtaining those robot voice simulations, as they dont all come from the vocoder.Then theres that increasingly popular auto tune software or speech synthesis.

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