Sort of dumb Voxengo question...

[Daniel78]

but you could encode a mono signal at 2x sample rate, interleaved across the 2 stereo outputs of a plugin. Quite what you'd do with that though, i'm not sure...

[kylen]

Hmmm...what kinda skin we talkin here ?

[Yagushi]

I may be interested in creating a 32-band 'classic' stereo vocoder, but its CPU load will be pretty high - something like 30% on Athlon XP 3000+.

I'll gladly take a 30% CPU hit if your Vocoder works as well as your other plugs.

Me too!

From my experience Fruity Vocoder is just about in that range band- and CPU-wise... and it sounds okay/acceptable to me... but I imagine yours could be even better sound-wise...

[Kingston]

For example, I may be interested in creating a 32-band 'classic' stereo vocoder, but its CPU load will be pretty high - something like 30% on Athlon XP 3000+. I doubt many users will be happy with such performance. But 5-band vocoder with 5% load is not the same thing at all.

yep, 32 quality bandpass filters -> envelope followers to all bands -> multiplying yet another 32 bandpasses + additional sibilance sidechaining = CPU hog pig monster. oversample all that and it's goodbye to 2-3ghz of pure processing power.

but I bet it'll sound a lot like those Sennheisers, too. It's only barely practical at this stage of native DSP power, unfortunately.

But hey, it was barely practical even back in the day as analog implementation as well. Not a whole lot of them was ever built due to it being so expensive to produce.