VOCODING_101

destroyifyer

Welcome to (modular) Vocoding 101. Now all we need is a proffessor or two...or 10. I've tried to build vocoder patches a few times using different modular programs... always having a tough time. I have tried running my voice directly to the FM inputs of oscillators... and it's not working out so great; my vocoder patches basically always sound very harsh, and sensitively freaky. My oscillators on my current program look as follows:

(FM) ....freq dial... ..pulsewidth... ...amount...
(FM) (octave +1,+2)
(LINEAR INPUT) (sin, tri, square, (?) , noise)
(PW)
(PW)
(AM)
(SYNC) (output)

I also have an arsenal of different modules to use on the modular program obviously (synfactory), such as vocoder filter bank, filters (all sorts of crap) and of course I can utilize audio-in and midi and stuff... I've got it where I can controll the pitch of my voice with the midi keyboard but it always sounds extremely harsh with or without filters. Suggestions? Methods? Links to pages about modular vocoding? Any help here would be great. Thanks, from Destroyifyer.

abreaktor · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:37 am Post subject:

whats wrong with harsh and freaky? can you provide samples? and if, can i use them? ^^

Antimon · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 1:18 pm Post subject:

I've only tried the vocoder in the Nord Modulars, and there my problem is that I tend to lose high frequencies, ending up with a muddy, unintelligable sound. I've tried mixing in a high-passed, but otherwise untreated, input signal, which yields something more listenable.

/Stefan

seraph · Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 2:07 pm Post subject:

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