Hello,
I’m trying to recreate a specific vocal effect and I’m stuck.
At first, I assumed it was a vocoder, so I tested multiple options, including Waves Ovox and other standard vocoders, but none of them matched the sound. Then I moved to formant processing — I tried plugins like Soundtoys Little AlterBoy and Waves Vocal Bender — still no success.
The confusing part is that I can’t clearly tell whether the formants are shifted up or down. The voice sounds extremely “avatar-like” — not fully human — yet all consonants and articulation remain very clear and intelligible.
Because of that, it doesn’t behave like a typical formant shift or vocoder. It feels like something more complex or layered.
Has anyone encountered a similar type of processing? What category of processing or technique does this resemble the most?
what plugin is this?
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- KVRAF
- 2751 posts since 15 Apr, 2004 from Capital City, UK
Honestly sounds like fast autotuning, and there a few to choose from these days, not just Antarestech. On principle I would also avoid the Waves MetaTune.
For realtime solutions:
bx_crispytuner https://www.plugin-alliance.com/products/bx_crispytuner
Melda AutoPitch https://www.meldaproduction.com/mautopitch
Other folks use offline processing to control the pitch, and it usually means a lot of manual work (on top of running macros to broadly 'fix' the vocal pitch)
Melodyne (Assitant will do you; just try the demo) https://www.celemony.com/en/melodyne/me ... 5-editions
And depending on your host, you may well have some kind of monophonic pitch-shifting available to you (VariAudio(?) in Cubase, Flex Pitch in Logic.. - might be worth checking in your DAW)
Bear in mind that a lot of this kind of vocal production is 2-stage. Offline vocal pitching in Melodyne (for example) which is then fed into an 'autotune'-style process which affects the texture and clarity of the vocal.
For realtime solutions:
bx_crispytuner https://www.plugin-alliance.com/products/bx_crispytuner
Melda AutoPitch https://www.meldaproduction.com/mautopitch
Other folks use offline processing to control the pitch, and it usually means a lot of manual work (on top of running macros to broadly 'fix' the vocal pitch)
Melodyne (Assitant will do you; just try the demo) https://www.celemony.com/en/melodyne/me ... 5-editions
And depending on your host, you may well have some kind of monophonic pitch-shifting available to you (VariAudio(?) in Cubase, Flex Pitch in Logic.. - might be worth checking in your DAW)
Bear in mind that a lot of this kind of vocal production is 2-stage. Offline vocal pitching in Melodyne (for example) which is then fed into an 'autotune'-style process which affects the texture and clarity of the vocal.