
To make it do what one wants it to do will take some practice and tweaking though but that will be up to you.

I had never used this effect but tried it just now in the usual configuration I use for such effects in Reaktor and it worked fine technically. Please check your Reaktor or Reaktor Session user's guide for helpful information. * You can play a sound through the built-in loop-player, through the realtime audio inputs, or you can process audio in realtime by using Reaktor as an effect plugin. The re-shaped bands of the carrier signal are mixed together, providing the output signal of the vocoder. The amplitude of each frequency band of the voice is linked to the frequency bands in the string or synth sound. All changes in number of bands are immediately shown in the graphical display. You can adjust the number of voices of the vocoder instrument to change how many bands are used. The frequency content of the voice is split up into many different bands - the number of bands has an obvious impact on the sound, with fewer bands leading to more synthetic voices, and higher bands make the voice easier to understand. To achieve the popular robotic-singing effect, a voice (technically called the modulator) is vocoded with a constant sound, such as a synth or string sound (the carrier). Sonically, Vocoding uses the characteristics of one sound to control another.

The output of the vocoder is fed into the four-band normalizer to smooth-out the sound and remove any uncomfortable signal peaks that could come with vocal sibilants or drum transients. If you are using a stereo signal, only the left channel will be used. Play some audio into the vocoder.* You don't have to sing into it - the Classic Vocoder also gives great results with drum loops or other sounds.Īudio input 1 is the modulator, and is vocoded with the Classic 2-VCO synth, which is the carrier. The audio input is vocoded with the built-in synthesizer. The instrument combines a vocoding engine, a vintage-type synthesizer, and a four-band dynamics processor for a warm, smooth sound. The Classic Vocoder was designed to faithfully emulate the well-known tones of singing robots made popular in the seventies.
