Making Music Guide: Introduction to Vocoders - How to Make Electronic Music

ers can in reality be useable and do not necessarilyvocoder. For example for around 1000 dollars you may
have to sound like a robot. If you're going to utilise this,be able to pick up a Roland VP-300 thats in very
you will require two inputs. One being a carrier wave,great shape, but then the old Korg VC-10 can be had
which's the sound youre going to vocode through andmuch less expensive and solider too. Then don't leave
the second a modular voice, which will likely be yours.out the MicroKorg afterall it does have a microphone
This gives a synthesiser sound that is easilyand its handily small and low-priced simultaneously.
recognized and in all sense has been used since theDon't rule out the talk boxes for obtaining those robot
1960s in common music.voice simulations, as they dont all come from the
Vocoders have a different number of bands, and thevocoder.Then theres that increasingly popular auto
reason being is cause the modulator takes on yourtune software or speech synthesis.
voice, analyses the primary parts which're theThere are a lot of software out there that can
fundamental frequencies. Then these are changed intosimulator vocoders. One of them is the use of VST
levels of amplitudes on a group of band pass filters. Toplugins. No matter if you're a beginner in music
make your voice much more audible it requires moresoftware production or a seasoned pro, you will be
bands. At long last as these filter signals are carrieddelighted with the arsenal of effects and plugins
onto the carrier wave the ultimate sound is emulated.available to you online. You no longer have to fiddle
To reach the basic robot effect you need thewith complex synthesizers or software settings. With
modulator to be speech, but you can utilize any thingVST plugins, all the hard work is already done for you...
you want as the carrier and the modulator to get otherVST plugins a great resource for those individuals who
different sounds. For instance, if you wanted you couldare interested in music creation and production.
run instruments or other synthesiser through theBack in the days, if you were going to do serious
modular in-put. Intriguing results are what you will get.things with sound, you needed a bunch of expensive
Normally the carrier will be a agreeably hugeequipment, or maybe access to a real recording studio.
synthesiser sound, like a string sound or still a long sawWith computers, the bar has been lowered
wave pad. You could use anything that had a coupleconsiderably.
of good depth and length to it though.Virtual instruments have given the home or
Hardware and software synthesiser that're computerlaptop-based musician unprecedented access to new
presently possess vocoders as common features.sounds and new ways to make them.
Basically you simply get your monies worth, when itSo go ahead and experiment with new sounds today...
comes to developing the sound of a dedicated analog