I've been experimenting with using a vocoder on percussive sounds. I find that if you use a kick, hat, or clap to modulate a fairly rich carrier sound, you can come up with some pretty interesting stuff:

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Anyone else do this?

Last edited by MrJiveBoJingles on Oct-29-2006 at 18:16

Sounds pretty good..Which vocoder did you use to do this? I've never been able to figure out how to work a vocoder!

I used Reason's built-in vocoder. I'll probably start playing around with NI's "Vokator" soon and seeing what sort of sounds I can get out of that, too.

Nice,

Thanx for the tips

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One thing I like about Reason's vocoder is that you can also use it as a 32-band EQ. You can get some interesting effects with extreme EQ settings:

Sounds like an old recording, kind of "haunted"

"Breathing" synth

haha, nice

I think everyone once tries to do sonic mayhem with vocoders and vocoding absolutely anthing with anything...nice samplies


I always wondered what's a good vocoder VST? I mean I always used reason's one...

and never thought of getting a VST:..

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I'm not sure what the best Vocoder VST is. I never really looked into vocoders until recently.

there is a pretty good vocoder that comes in the Computer music magazine dvd.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles NI's "Vokator"

i must have missed this.. gonna look for it

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Sounds pretty cool man, gonna go have a play! :P

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Originally posted by dj_palm alot of finish trance produceres rout their baselines and kicks mixed together thru a vocoder as a breakpart, powerfull efect. myself use vocoder alot but only on the tracks i dont seem to be able finish. these samples of you btw are very good!

thats a cool idea... Interesting for a breakdown. One of the big vocoders is NI Vokator. Getting it later this week as part of Komplete. I used a resonator (The Ableton Live one) on a drum loop on something I was screwing around with, sounded pretty cool esp. on the reverse snare hits! I think a vocoder sounds similar but with much more control over the sound right?

Megabump!

Been experimenting with this once again, and I'm finding it's really nice for getting shimmering ambient textures. This is a basic synth sound in Reason (one Subtractor) run through a vocoder and modulated by a piano passage:

http://jbj.raceriv.com/sounds/other/chopvocoded.mp3

It has some added spaciness due to being run through a couple of oscillating filters attached to delays. Here's how the delays sound with more staccato stuff rather than a pad:

http://jbj.raceriv.com/sounds/other/lilriff.mp3