KVR Audio

jplanet · Post by **jplanet** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:32 pm

For all the expensive and technically impressive solutions that are out there, if anyone in the NYC area needs to make their voice sound like a woman and cannot afford Powercore, I will kick you in the balls shortly before your recording session for free.

;-0

JackDark · Post by **JackDark** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:49 pm

Heartily recommend:

http://www.dancetech.com/file-library/P ... okyjoe.zip

XOXOS' Smokey Joe does the job, despite the artifact inducements.

al2k1 · Post by **al2k1** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 5:23 pm

Didn't the one of the guys from front 242 change their voice to female on 1992's Off album? I thought I read that somewhere and would love to know how he did that because that sounded convincing.

blümchen · Post by **blümchen** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 4:45 pm

Space Boy wrote:
upsidedown wrote:Look after PSOLA (Pitch Synchronous Overlapp and Add) based technology, also known as TDHS (Time Domain Harmonic Scaling). That is in fact the only existing tech, which is actually able to deliver you an acceptable result what you are looking for. But don't expect a miracle! (The result very much depends on the existing formants of the proceeded voice).

All others (i.e. FFT based) will not satisfy you approximately.

Tips (plugins actually using that technology):
- Leapfrog Rephrase (most options for tweakin)
- Steinberg Voice Machine
- AKAI Deca Buddy
- Waves UltraPitch
- J&H OmniVox (currently Beta)

Hardware:
YAMAHA VH150 board (voice Harmonizer).
FYI

PSOLA is FFT based in most cases. Quite simply, the 'Overlap Add' part refers to the process of overlapping short term FFT (ST-FFT) segments that have been used for the pitch modification.

The 'Pitch Synchronous' part is realized by tracking signal phase and could easily have been called 'Phase Synchronous Overlap Add' which makes more technical sense.

You also missed 'Choir Boy' off your list of plug-ins.

Sorry, but that is pure nonsense here from you.
PSOLA is (mainly or purely) time domain, not FFT (frequency domain).

Althought FFT my be used for pitch detection, but must not ...

I developed that OmniVox, so please forgive me. There is no FFT used.

But probaby there are some hybrid cases...

Thus, Chor Boy has not to be in that list from me above.
You can clearly hear that, if you try to use formant correction with that plugin. It sounds not exactly like the results with PSOLA for some reasons ...

That thesis coming from you ?

Very strange! You should know it better.

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simesf · Post by **simesf** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:05 pm

I thought Akai's Decabuddy was no longer around? At least in software form.

Simesf

blümchen · Post by **blümchen** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:12 pm

simesf wrote:I thought Akai's Decabuddy was no longer around? At least in software form.

Simesf

So why didn't you buy it, when it was available?
It is one of the best - no, it is definately the best - vocal harmonizer around.

(Saying that, having build my own.)

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noizetronic · Post by **noizetronic** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 5:58 pm

al2k1 wrote:Didn't the one of the guys from front 242 change their voice to female on 1992's Off album? I thought I read that somewhere and would love to know how he did that because that sounded convincing.

it did indeed sound convincing, most likely because of the singer posessing female hardware / being 99 Kowalski (a.k.a. Christine Kowalski).

regards noizetronic

flugel45 · Post by **flugel45** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:07 pm

spaceman wrote:Cutballs VST

Space,
I was going to suggest Castrator VST, but I see you already mentioned it by its street name.

JD

rpc9943 · Post by **rpc9943** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:00 pm

how come no one suggested helium?

RonC

blümchen · Post by **blümchen** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:47 pm

rpc9943 wrote:how come no one suggested helium?
RonC

Because you get a certain comic figure then.

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Bunnyboy · Post by **Bunnyboy** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:56 pm

pustekuchen wrote:
rpc9943 wrote:how come no one suggested helium?
RonC
Because you get a certain comic figure then.

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Last time I tried heluim it didnt work, but affected all the girls i was with

brewt · Post by **brewt** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:37 am

After CloneEnsemling your track, a little Melodyne action should fix what you think is wrong.....

=bjc

JackDark · Post by **JackDark** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:42 am

DarKoder can do this, check try out some of the "vox" presets.

http://www.jackdark.net/darkware.html

Any VST that changes Male's voice to Female?