User Reviews for Vokko
Click here to add a review
By wendallsan
On 18th November 2004
Version: 1.6
Read all reviews by
wendallsan
0 of 2 people found
this review helpful.
Was this review
helpful to you?
Yes | No |
| | 
GUI
Sound
Features
Docs
Presets
Support
VFM
Stability |
I have been dreaming of having a decent vocoder for years. And finally here is a good sounding, highly functional answer to that wish! Vokko has a very efficient synthesis engine on it w/ 3 oscelators (1 PWM, 1 rompler style, and 1 noise) which produces a great variety of carrier sounds. It also can do soundfont playback as a carrier as well, but I have not messed with that feature yet, so I can't comment on it. The interface could be a little cleaner, but it is usable. And certainly the most gratifying thing about it is that you get to install it, load it up in your host, and instantly start vocoding. I am running Sonar 4 as my host and I have managed to crash it a few times when using this plugin, so I think it could be more stable, but it is fun enough for me to put up with the crashes. Perhaps other hosts would be more stable.
This thing produces very nice sounding vocoding effects, vocal modulation sources result in highly comprensible results as long as you use the proper carrier synth settings. Other uses other than vocals (drums, random experimentation, etc.) also sounds great. The manual is not too well written and a little jumbled, but the user interface is simple enough that a quick look thru the manual is about all you'll ever need to get it. A lot of the features seem to be overkill to me, apparently it is based on someone else's vocoder effect and then other modules (such as the soundfont player) were added to make this into a new instrument. I haven't really bothered with the filters or envelopes, since I am using this mainly for vocoding vocals at this time. Many of the features seem extraneous to the core purpose of this instrument, but then again maybe I am just not using it the way the designer intended.
One thing to note is that the price for Vokko is $30US, not the $15 indicated above. That was the price I was charged for it as of 04-11-1 at least. But still, $30 is a great price for this handy little tool if you don't have a vocoder feature rolled up into some other plugin that you already have. This is a great sounding piece of dedicated software. |
|
  |
Last edited by wendallsan on 18th November 2004
|
|
By topaz
On 29th September 2003
Version: 1.65
Read all reviews by
topaz
6 of 6 people found
this review helpful.
Was this review
helpful to you?
Yes | No |
| |
GUI
Sound
Features
Docs
Presets
Support
VFM
Stability |
Vokko 1.65
what can we say about Vokko, 1st up we have tried just about every vocoder plugin out there
(minus Vokator by NI)
and this baby beats them all hands down, it gives instant vintage vocoder-ing as well as more warped tweaking fx.
many vocoders we tried needed lots of setting up and messing before getting a decent sound, not the case with Vokko, it does it right away, instant gratification.
another really cool feature is using it as a pitch locking effect, ie:fixing flat notes in vocal parts.
(not like autotune that can have the cher munchkin effect we all know and hate ? )
before snubbing Vokko as a synthedit creation
this one 100% proves that good ides/design can sound as good as any other format.
the price is outstanding and the fact you can load your own sf2 carriers makes it one fantastic plugin.
big thanks to Matias. |
|
| |
Last edited by topaz on 30th September 2003
|
|
|
Latest 2 reviews from a total of 2 |
