Bernie shows you how to use the vocoder.

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If you're like me, you're always lookin' for new ways to create sounds hithertofore unheard on our beloved rock... Planet Earth. I think very highly of the awesome freeware offered by AnalogX. Well, as I couldn't wait to get started, I opened up the Vocoder program and was delighted to find that it does exactly as promised!

The program comes with two sample waves - one for each side, i.e. one carrier, one modulation. Do not be alarmed when you hear the initial results of mixing these samples. A little tweaking provides some interesting effects.

I was personally undaunted and proceded to record my own test samples. I'm presently working on a new song, so I simply spoke the title into the mic after setting my levels, saved the file and picked up my guitar. I then played and recorded the three primary notes of the song at approximately the same tempo, and saved that file. My sound card records only in stereo, so I had to convert the waves to mono. I used Creative Wave Studio, but any wave editor shoud suffice. Don't forget to reduce your levels by half or the wave will clip by nearly half!

I then loaded the guitar sample into the carrier side and the voice into the modulated side, tweaked the settings a little until the effect was ledgible and Voila... Success!! I got the precise effect I was looking for on the very first try! I'm going to use it on the song, but for anyone who wants to hear it, I converted it to a 67KB MP3 file

Good luck with the program, and if you need tech advice on many of the programs available here at SMM, feel free to contact me. (I've tried at least half of them!!) Have a good one!!

FlyinV_@Excite.com

 

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