{"id":51,"date":"2018-07-10T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5722.temp.domains\/~audioor1\/creative-uses-of-common-effects-vocoder\/"},"modified":"2019-07-27T02:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T02:11:00","slug":"creative-uses-of-common-effects-vocoder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/audioordeal.co.uk\/creative-uses-of-common-effects-vocoder\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Uses of Common Effects: Vocoder"},"content":{"rendered":"
Vocoding is a fantastic effect, used in many genres of music over the past 50 years. Popularised in the seventies, it uses the voice as a way to filter the sound of an instrument. By modulating an instrument with a human voice, you can get complex, robotic and ethereal sounds which are otherwise extremely complex to program into a synth. Here is a list of tricks for using vocoders, both as they were originally intended and some cool alternative uses to make the most out of your music.<\/div>\n
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Vocoders work by having a carrier signal, which is modulated by a modulator signal. The carrier, typically a synth has a full spectrum of sound, often over most octaves. By modulating it with a voice, the frequencies expressed will match the frequencies of your voice.<\/div>\n
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Imagine looking into the spectrum analysis of your voice as you speak, you will see peaks at the frequencies being made.<\/div>\n
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signal and modulates it as the voice changes.<\/i><\/div>\n
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What if you were to make an EQ curve on the synth that matched the frequencies of the voice, in real time as they are expressed? This is equivalent to what a vocoder does. It follows the vowels of speech and places them on a synth to make the synth talk.<\/div>\n
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