Let's talk vocoder plugins

[jamcat]

I'll say this about vocoder plugins: I thought Waldorf Lector sounded really good and clean, with a lot of clarity, so I picked it up on a whim for $25 or so a few years ago. I've never used it. Nor can I at this point, because Waldorf has still not updated it for Apple Silicon.

[sqigls]

Orange Vocoder is great for making all kinds of dubby sounds.
It's very expensive, and quite CPU taxing, but i'm always getting inspiration from it.
The GUI is kinda cool, i really dig the ability to preview items by hovering the cursor over them etc
Sounds the gods bollocks. It's versatile for a vocoder also, the different oscillator types and so forth. I own handful of vocoders, but i find most of them a pain to program. Orange vocoder is actually fun to use.

[zerocrossing]

I still use Vocodex, though I guess you can’t buy that anymore. FL Studio only. Good clean sounding vocoder. For a vintage vibe, I use the Arturia. Seems good to me for the few times a year I need a vocoder.

[jamcat]

Let me guess, Christmas and President’s Day?

[Ah_Dziz]

I particularly enjoy the sound of FFT based vocoding with a nice small size (128-256 max). For a more "smeared" analog style vocoding sound I would usually use MVocoder or a built in daw Vocoder. I find the carrier sound and reasonable gain staging to be the biggest factors to making any Vocoder do what I want. Honestly I use vocoders far more with drums as a modulator than a voice. I'm not often in need of singing synths. I do like a layer of Vocoder based harmony here and there in backup vocal tracks.
Another fun trick is to extract the pitch from your lead vocal to a midi track, use the generated midi to drive a carrier signal, vocode the vocal with the carrier, and then process the shit out of the Vocoder track with a pile of glitchy manipulation (stutter edit 2, permut8, specOps, etc). The result can be brought in at key moments to accentuate the lead vocal in a way that sounds more like a bizarre synth accompaniment than a simple edit or one off effect.

[martiu]

Hi, is bitspeek some kind of vocoder?, i use that on pads or drones sometimes to make them sound very gloomy and haunting
like here

[Tony Ostinato]

that's using 2 instances of vocalsynth2, none of my ugly real voice allowed thru.

[CinningBao]

Hi, is bitspeek some kind of vocoder?, i use that on pads or drones sometimes to make them sound very gloomy and haunting
like here

Perhaps, because you can't feed it a carrier signal, maybe not?

It's an LPC operation, and although I think the new Zynaptiq thing has a couple of LPC algorithms into which you can feed both carrier and modulator, the fact that it is monophonic, it might not meet all the criteria we use to identify it as a 'vocoder'.

Having said that, you can feed it MIDI notes to make you're vocal lines 'sing' so in some peoples definition of a vocoder, it could well meet the criteria.

[kidslow]

Anyone have any experience with gsdsp MagicFusion Spectral vocoder?
https://gs-dsp.com/products/magicfusion

[Ploki]

Orange Vocoder for me ever since it got updated

[S4410]

I loved the old Prosoniq Orange Vocoder, the Zynaptiq one is much more complicated and cpu heavy, but yes it's nice and creative. Izotope's Vocal Synth 2 is cool. From waves, Morphoder is basic, their new one is QVox. For vintage sound an old favorite of mine was ELS Eiosis Vocoder, now XILS 5000..
Vocoders are so fun to use...

[DCrown]

Waves morphoder

[tlkmx]

I wish fruits loops was re-releasing vocodex as a vst so it was usable on m1 mac.
It's one of the only vocoder as capable as live vocoder for sound design..

[tlkmx]

I've messaged image line about it. Other people interested should try too

[Cuauhtli]

I use Vocodex and Arturia's Vocoder, need to experiment with the Pigments version. I have Lector but found it disappointing.