anybody knows a GOOD vowel/formant filter

[brok landers]

hi all,
this time it's me who needs some help ...
i'm desperately seeking for a free vowel/formant filter, to create choir-like ahhh's and ohhh's and alike ... it has to be a seperate effect vst, no synth ...
i downloaded tobybears vowelfilter, and allthough it is surprisingly good, it's not adjustable, which is what i need ...
i also searched the kvr database, but there's not much in terms of formant/vowel filters ...
anyone knows of such a thing?
thanks in advance ...

[Tronam]

I would be curious as well. The best vowel/formant filter effect that I've personally used on the PC is part of the Korg Legacy Collection's MDE-X multi-effect plugin. It's called TalkingModulator and also includes an LFO (tempo syncable as well) frequency modulator. I'd love to find a freeware alternative.

I really wish AudioEase's plugins weren't Mac only, because their Rocket Science bundle has an awesome, high quality vowel filter effect called Roger:

http://www.audioease.com/Pages/RocketSc ... rMain.html

[CinningBao]

Tone2's Filterbank has usable vowel filters, and there might be a few more commercial filter machines which offer vowel filters, can't remember right now..

apart from MHC voxfx http://www.mhc.se/software/plugins/voxfx/

edit:
wow, these are strange looking plugs
http://brb.notatruck.net/vst.html

there's a Voweleriser near the bottom of the page, though i haven't used it myself.

[MaliceX]

Jeremy Evers' Atlantis' filter effect plugin that comes with the synth package (free) has a formant filter included in its set of effects.

www.jeremyevers.com

[tylenol]

I don't know if it does what you need, but I rather like automat's vowel filter. While it is a synth, it can be used as an effect by turning off all of the oscillators and routing the audio to its sidechain. I get best results when I am also sending midi input to automat to control the envelopes (e.g. by splitting the midi signal and sending it to both a synth feeding automat and automat). Note that I am talking about automat v0.4.2 here, not the recent automat 1 beta, which sadly seems to lack the vowel filter (or I can't find it).

[spacedad]

contralogic's vowel synthedit prefab is great,it's a synth atm,but maybe an effect version could be made from it?
http://synthedit.audioholik.com/index.p ... tails&id=7

[brok landers]

hey all, thanks for your support ...
i'll work off all your suggestions, feel free to come with more, though ....
thanks again!

[DiNFeVo]

JS Humanizer http://membres.lycos.fr/jeje1999/plug.htm

[vista]

Pitch/Formantshifter
-> simple-media.co.uk VocONE 1.0
-> Xoxos FormantShifter 1.0
-> Jason Omnivox Beta (discontinued)

[brok landers]

-> simple-media.co.uk VocONE 1.0

vista, thatone was close, especially the fact that it's customizable ... but unfortunately i need an fx version, the osc's don't provide the necessary input signal ...

[jupiter8]

KarmaFX Synth can be used as an insert and has a vowel filter.

[Collusion]

Big Tick's Angelina comes with an effect and filter combination version.

[brok landers]

but it doesn't sound good (imo) ... that's the entire problem with all the stuff i've tried ... best so far is the tobybear one, the atlantis filter and simple-media.co.uk vocone (if thisone would be an effect only, then i think i could get some decent results) ... however, they're still way away of what i want ... i need the "ahhh-vowel" to be configurable, meaning the individual filterbands have to be adjustable in level and frequency ...
basically, what i'm trying to get is a result similar to the vp330 choir patch ... the strings i could get convincingly, at least they have the character of a stringmachine (i have samples for comparsions and i know the vp330), and basically the choir patch is the stringpatch, running through a customized filterbank, which is fix, buildt into the signalchain of the vp330 ...
so, i could get the stringmachine sound, but i up to now didn't find any filterbank/formantfilter/vowelfilter that can give me the vp330 filterbank sound ...

[Collusion]

i need the "ahhh-vowel" to be configurable, meaning the individual filterbands have to be adjustable in level and frequency ...

Which is why I suggested the Angelina FX version - Angelina has configurable formant filterbands.

One alternative would be using a stack of parametric EQs in parallel - which is essentially what a formant filter is. Had you considered this?

[TotcProductions]

TobyBear has a vowel filter IIRC. Not sure if it's any good but... Here

Peace