Retro Vocoder Styleeee

[Elektroid]

Hi all, Im trying to get to grips with Cubase SX and Ive just got Native Instruments Vokator.

Does anyone know if its possible to vocode your voice with a different VST synthesizer (eg FM7) instead of the synth thats built into Vokator? Im quite new to all this and not sure what Im doing half the time..I know I should spend the next week reading manuals but I was hoping one of you nice people could just give me a quick guide

[Goseba]

I don't have Vokator but I am pretty certain you can. I'd be really surprised if you couldn't.

[bernhardtjeff]

yeah, i think you patch a synth into one input (left of right, don't remember), then patch the audio into the opposite input. i dont use cubase, but i guess you'd do it by loading vokator into a bus, your synth on one track panned hard one way and the audio on another track panned hard oppositely, both sent to the bus. then in vokator, in the upper right corner, there are some buttons to mix different inputs and stuff... like a + b, a * b, etc. fiddle around with those. one of them will do it. i don't use it anymore, but i think that's all there is to it. you might have to swap the inputs if it doesn't sound right.

if all else fails, just start pushing buttons. you're not gonna break it. if you're "new to all this," that's the best advice: push buttons and see what happens.