Is VocalSynth 2 playable without pre-recording?

[flakdau]

Hello,
Im here cause im interested in buying VocalSynth 2 for my Ableton Live 11 but Id like to get some information before any purchase.
I watched quite a lot of videos on the Internet concerning the VS2 environment but theres something I always see and Im wondering about: to make the plugin work, we need a pre-recorded audio track. However, what Id like to do is using the plugin the same way I use my current vocoder (which is an Electrix Warp Factory Vocoder) by using a basic saw wave from my Microkorg as source input and my microphone as formant input BUT at the same time I want to make the plugin work without recording before playing. I want to play and it works, I just want to enjoy the vocoder, not necessarily record all the time each time I want to use it
Basically what I want is to do something like performance but just for fun. The thing is I have absolutely no idea how to do it. I could use my Microkorg as source input but also just something like Serum (in any case I just need a basic sawtooth wave).

Voilà.. If you have any advice or information about it, or just tell me if its possible or not, I would be really grateful.

Thank you!!

[CinningBao]

Yeah I got it cheap or free some years ago, and never really use it. Not keen on the ugly algorithms (just a bit too unstable and glitchy for my liking), can't feed two external sources (like, a voice and a synth, as you'd like to do), I'd never put it on a vocal which is going to sit at the front of a production/mix; it's for sitting in the background.

The other thing is you can't do real-time vocoder! Like, I would ask them in the development process, "why aren't we making it so it can be played live - we've already included a 'low latency talkbox' option so why not?" but I wasn't so the product ended up like this.

You could try the Zynaptiq vocoder (I've done a vid about it here)



At least it does real-time vocodering! There are a couple more I A/B against it for a few more options.

[flakdau]

Thanks to you I made my own researches about this vocoder and actually it seems very interesting too. The thing is Im searching a very specific sound from the VocalSynth VST, and a preset was made by the channel Talha Vocoding which makes me very interested about.

Here he is using VS2 the way I would like to use it BUT I literally see no one else use it this same way... And there's no information about how he does that and thats very frustrating.

I think that even if I cant use it the way I want Ill have to take it.. I prefer that instead of buying a real Digitech Talker around 1000$ oof

[VariKusBrainZ]

Not hearing anything special in the above example. Just typical vocoder with some effects. Maybe its the playing style your wanting to ape

[flakdau]

The example is trying to reproduice the Digitech Talker sound, its very specific but yeah for the moment I dont care. So yes what Im searching for is how to play VocalSynth the same way its used in the video: playing and having the effect directly instead of recording an audio vocal track before and adding the VocalSynth effects to it