Synton Syntovox Vocoders
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The history:
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- Rumours say that this vas Syntons last vocoder before they went under.The vocoder vas
designed to be programmable and to alow each BPF channel to be swept in frequency and in Q value,
but all this info are still rumours.
Tune in your favorite robo-sounds
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The Voice Box packs a multi-functional vocal synth processor into a tough and compact chassis. Sing, and you’ll have a troupe of backup singers following you in perfect harmony. Or use the built-in vocoder to unleash classic synth-robot sounds.
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The Voice Box packs a multi-functional vocal synth processor into a tough and compact chassis. Sing, and you’ll have a troupe of backup singers following you in perfect harmony. Or use the built-in vocoder to unleash classic synth-robot sounds.
Diana Ross had the Supremes, Brian Wilson had the Beach Boys, Kraftwerk had The Robots. You have the Voice Box.
The harmony processor creates 2- to 4-part harmonies directly from your vocals, in the same key as your accompanying instrument. Studio-quality reverb lets you independently add depth to your dry and harmony vocals.
The focused 256-band articulate vocoder, designed by the same EMS genius who made vocoding famous, features adjustable harmonic enhancement and controllable formant shift.
Plug in your mic and your instrument, and let your new voice — or voices — be heard!
This you just must see – talkbox
Incredible 60s talkbox action from session musician ledgend and steel guitar whizz-kid, Pete Drake.
A talk box is an effects device that allows a musician to modify the sound of a musical instrument. The musician controls the modification by changing the shape of their mouth.
TalkBox
The effect can be used to shape the frequency content of the sound and to apply speech sounds (in the same way as singing) onto a musical instrument, typically a guitar (its non-guitar use is often confused with the vocoder) and keyboards.
A talk box is usually an effects pedal that sits on the floor and contains a speaker attached with an air tight connection to a plastic tube, however, it can come in other forms, such as the ‘Ghetto Talkbox’ (a homemade version which is usually crude) or higher quality custom made versions. The speaker is generally in the form of a horn driver, the sound generating part of a horn speaker with the horn replaced by the tube connection.
“According to an interview of Pete Drake “You play the notes on the guitar and it goes through the amplifier. I have a driver system so that you disconnect the speakers and the sound goes through the driver into a plastic tube. You put the tube in the side of your mouth then form the words with your mouth as you play them. You don’t actually say a word: The guitar is your vocal cords, and your mouth is the amplifier. It’s amplified by a microphone.”
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Propellerheads feature Bon Harris
A really good feature story, enjoy
Bon Harris is mostly known as a founding member of legendary UK electronic act Nitzer Ebb, but he has also worked with artists such as Billy Corgan, Marilyn Manson, his own band Maven, and many more.
Bon is back in the studio working on the new Nitzer Ebb album and we met with him to talk about how he is using Reason in his work. Check the full story for a detailed explanation of how to fatten a bass sound using Reason’s BV-512 vocoder (with a Harris-crafted example patch to download) and even a little sneak listen to a new Nitzer Ebb track.
And of course a bonus Nitzer ebb video, one of my favorites:
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Using vocoder in Reason 4
Found a good tutorial today on how to get the most out of the Vocoder in Reason, make sure to try it out.
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Short on Reason’s vocoder below:
BV-512
Besides being a 4 to 512-band vocoder capable of modulating sound in both old-school analog style and digital FFT fashion, this unit also doubles as a fully automated equalizer with a twist. The BV-512 can be used for everything from classic robot vocals to weird harmonic effects.
To Vocode
A vocoder takes two input signals, the carrier, which provides the pitch, and the modulator, supplying the characteristics.
Traditional vocoders require you to sing into a microphone while playing a keyboard. Not this one – with the BV-512 you can combine any two sound sources. Try vocoding your percussion track with the bass line or the string pad with the rhythm guitar.
The Bands
A vocoder splits the incoming audio into a number of frequency bands. More bands gives you more control and more detail. Where most vocoders max out at eight to sixteen bands, the BV-512 gives you up to, you guessed it, 512 bands. In 4-band mode, the BV- 512 provides a gritty, analog, lo-fi sound. The 512- band setting is another beast altogether. In this mode, a digital 1024-point FFT-based algorithm provides the clearest, most detailed and most audible vocoding you ever heard from a computer.
The EQ
Hitting the EQ switch on the front panel calls up a handy parametric and low shelving equalizer for additional tweaking of your reverberated signal. Combine this section with the HF Damp and HF Smooth knobs on the front panel, and be the master of your wet signal’s every frequency.
The Gate
A flick of a switch turns the BV-512 into a 4 to 512 band stereo equalizer. Use the higher settings for detailed control of the spectrum.
Or try the four and eight band modes for a decidedly more lo-fi sound that adds an unmistakable vocoder “color” to your input signal.
Automation
Like all other Reason devices, the BV-512 Vocoder can be fully automated, band level settings included. Record your front panel actions, or use the pen tool to draw in layers upon layers of wild frequency changes. The Shift knob is just one example of a control that’s dying to be automated. One session with BV-512 and you’re hooked for life.
New vocoder from VirSyn – listen to it here
VirSyn has announced the release of MATRIX – The Voice Coder, “The Vocoder for the 21st century.”
And it sounds pretty cool too, listen for youselfs, LOL
MATRIX sets a new milestone in the long history of Vocoders started by Homer Dudley in 1936. This new application provides precise analog modelling 8-pole filters and extremely fast envelope followers for unprecedented resynthesis quality.
Additional features include: New voiced/unvoiced detection and pitch extraction algorithms for high intelligibility. Stereophonic synthesis filter bank preserves the spatial characteristic of the replacement signal.
More about MATRIX and sound demos:
www.virsyn.de/en/E_Products/E_MATRIX/e_matrix.html
Features
– 32 channel filter bank.
– stereophonic synthesis.
– voiced/unvoiced detection
– Pitch tracking
– Formant shift
– Pause filling
– Channel matrix
– Pan position and level for each channel.
– 16 internal oscillators.
– Easy user interface.
Host compatibility
– VST 2.4
– AudioUnit
– RTAS
Minimal system requirements PC
° Pentium IV 1.6 Ghz processor or Athlon XP/MP
° Windows XP
° USB port required for Syncrosoft copy protection device
° 16-bit Soundcard with DirectX/ASIO driver
Minimal system requirements Mac
° PowerPC G4/G5 1.6 GHz / Intel Mac
° Mac OS X version 10.4
° USB port required for Syncrosoft copy protection device
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