KVR Audio

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:57 am

Hi,

Waldorf now officially announced the upcoming Lector Vocoder plugin:

english: http://www.waldorfmusic.de/en/lector-overview.html

german : http://www.waldorfmusic.de/de/lector-ueberblick.html

other links about the specifications:
http://www.waldorfmusic.de/en/lector-sy ... ments.html
http://www.waldorfmusic.de/en/lector-sp ... tions.html

The Waldorf Lector is a FX plugin which will be released as VST2, VST3 and AU versions. For sidechaining inside VST2 there is a second plugin called "Lector Carrier" which is inserted at the track which should be used for sidechaining.
With the internal synth as the Carrier you could also use the included samples or load your own ones.

As the input (= "Speech") you could use any plugin like synths, samples or external inputs (e.g. Microphone). For the "Carrier" signal you could either use the internal 2 OSC synth or an external source if you use the "Sidechain" mode and the Lector Carrier plugin (second plugin not necessary for VST3 or AU).
It's also possible to use it within sample editors like e.g. Steinberg Wavelab which is able to use VST FXs.

Lector is based on the Waldorf D-Coder Powercore plugin (and on the Vocoder of the Q desktop AFAIK): http://www.tcelectronic.com/WaldorfDCoder.asp

More features could be seen at he Waldorf website (see links above)

Copy protection will be by eLicenser like Largo and the PPG Wave 3.V.

An older KVR thread about Lector based on the Musikmesse could be found here:
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... 57#4486357

UPDATE:
I just noticed that this is published in the Instruments forum. I thought i added it to the Effects forum. If necessary please move it to the appropriate forum.

Ingo

rob_lee · Post by **rob_lee** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:10 am

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:12 am

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:15 am

a vocoder? boooooooooooooooooooooooooooring

rob_lee · Post by **rob_lee** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:15 am

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:18 am

rob_lee · Post by **rob_lee** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:21 am

Cintronic · Post by **Cintronic** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:36 am

Kriminal wrote:a vocoder? boooooooooooooooooooooooooooring

You seen the vid? Didnt look boring to me, its far from a regular vocoder. Shame its going to be out of my price range.

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:59 am

jackrabbit wrote:
Kriminal wrote:a vocoder? boooooooooooooooooooooooooooring
You seen the vid? Didnt look boring to me, its far from a regular vocoder. Shame its going to be out of my price range.

No, it's really not boring at all.

Of course it's a different thing compared to a regular synth but the good thing is that you could use it with any other synth plugin or an external input.

Based on the video from the Musikmesse the price will be around 199 Euros. I totally missed that Wolfram mentioned this. Let's see if this is the final one.

One video from the Musikmesse is here, it's in german only:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQ9u1LDZAk

Mescalito · Post by **Mescalito** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:09 am

ohh no the same slow GUI haha

like DiScO197 wrote in his last post here: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4464364

I won't be spending another penny on Waldorf gear !

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:11 am

Mescalito wrote:ohh no the same slow GUI haha

Are you sure?

BTW both Largo (v1.5.1) and PPG Wave 3.V (v1.0.2) are working nicely on Windows 7 32-bit here. Same about the Waldorf Edition (with latest v1.2.9).

Mescalito · Post by **Mescalito** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:21 am

Ingonator wrote:
Mescalito wrote:ohh no the same slow GUI haha
Are you sure?

no of course I wouldn't be rude

... i'm sure it's a extremly good sounding vocoder

if they fix the gui thing (i still dont think its my pc) im thinking about to forgive waldorf

ericj23 · Post by **ericj23** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:32 am

As a waldorf d-coder owner is there an upgrade path? I would be all over it if there was. Lovely bit of kit, but as power core will likely not be supported in windows 8 this would be a fine replacement

Ingonator · Post by **Ingonator** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:41 am

ericj23 wrote:As a waldorf d-coder owner is there an upgrade path? I would be all over it if there was. Lovely bit of kit, but as power core will likely not be supported in windows 8 this would be a fine replacement

Currently i have no idea about an upgrade path but since there was one for the old Waldorf Edition and the old PPG WAve 2.V to the new versions it could be possible. Opposing to Komplexer (replaced by Largo now) which was a Terratec product the D-Coder was an official Waldorf product.

UPDATE:
I asked about the upgrade path. I'm waiting for an answer now.

PietW. · Post by **PietW.** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:33 am

I am so excited about the demo of Lector. The GUI like it very much.

Waldorf Lector Vocoder officially announced