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- This sounds like a mighty good vocoder. Certainly an option for live processing. Plug-in Download Link - https://tal-software.com/products/tal-voco.
- Vintage Vocoder real-time audio effect - VST and DXI plug-in for PC/MAC. Originally a commercial product published by Sonicism Digital Audio Solutions in 2002. This software was used for the robot voices and sound effects in the computer game Freelancer.
- May 10, 2011 YoGen Vocoder is sound effect software that impresses human voice upon any musical sounds. The results are robotic, alien, funny, or strange voices that.
- A huge collection of Vocoders software - freeware, shareware, and demos - that you can download for free. Platforms include Windows, Mac and Linux.
TAL VST, AU, Audio Unit, AAX plug-ins for OSX and Windows.
Robots that can talk. Basslines that talk. These are some of the magical possibilities when you start fucking with a vocoder. And to help you to make it sound like you’re collabing with Stephen Hawkings on vocals, we’ve put together an exquisite list of both premium and free vocoder vst plug-ins for you to grind your teeth on. Woop woop!
Fun Fact: The Vocoder was invented by Homer Dudley at Bell Laboratories in the mid-30’s of the last century. Tasty!
First, let’s mention the premium plug-ins, as these are generally the best in terms of sound quality. In no particular order, I bring to you:
1. Vocodex By Image-Line(Windows)
The makers of FL Studio have an absolute banger of a vocoder plug-in – Vocodex. The mighty AEPH reveals in a recent interview on BassGorilla.com that he often uses Vocodex on basslines created in Native Instruments Massive, for a more vocalized and fatter bass sound. This is one of the most powerful plugins in this article in terms of features, and has an excellent reputation for the quality of sound you can get out of it.
Key features include a soundgoodizer for warm output and limiting, up to 100 bands, sidechain carrier and / or modulator input, speech enhancement contouring, noise reduction and voice doubling.
2. Vocalizer By Sonivox(Windows)
Vocalizer is both an instrument and a processor. It comes with four spectral synthesis modules that can be routed into each other in any number of crazy ways.
Key features: formant shifting (creates some very unique sounds), over 16 filter configurations, 16 spectral synthesis types.
3. Matrix 2 By Virsyn(Mac & Windows)
This follow up to version one by software makers Virsyn features a 2nd Tone generator for improved speech intelligibility, an LFO for vibrato generation with optional mod wheel control, an improved pitch follower from version 1, 2 new filters, a redesigned interface and is now available for Mac OS X as a 64-bit plug-in.
4. Robotronic By Sugar Bytes(Mac & Windows)
Robotronic is a great sounding and easy to use vocoder which can process mono and stereo input signals, includes sampler and synthesizer and contains quite useful features like Frequency Focusing and Formant Shifting.
And now for the free vocoder VST plugins:
5. TAL-Vocoder by Togu Audio Line (Mac & Windows)
TAL-Vocoder is a vintage vocoder emulation with 11 bands that emulates the sound of vocoders from the early 80’s. This vocoder is optimized for voice processing and includes some algorithms for consonants to make the voice more intelligible. The carrier signal is a VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) with a Pulse, Saw, Noise and SubOsc. Key features:
- 11 band vocoder engine.
- Internal carrier synth (pulse, saw, sub osc, noise, mono, poly, portamento, sync mode, tune).
- Harmonic control (adds more harmonics to any carrier signal)
- “Ess” enhancer for a clean understandable voice, also with a carrier that hasnt much high frequencies.
6. Talkbox by mda (Mac & Windows)
MDA has an impressive 25 free plug-ins that you can download as one bundle for Mac or Windows, and the Talkbox is one of the plugins included with this bundle. Talkbox is a high resolution (albeit pretty simple) vocoder. It is not a feature-rich plug-in, but you can get some great sounds out of it if you experiment, and it is useful to have this in your artillery if you like to use a range of vocoders on different vocal samples or bass sounds for example. It gives a more natural and less electronic sound than other vocoders mentioned here.
7. Vocovee by g200kg(Windows)
Vocovee is the VST ‘Effect’ version of the VOCOV Vocoder. It doesn’t allow sidechain vocoding, but can do low latency vocoding. It is worth using this instead of Vocov if you need real-time vocoding. Vocovee has a improved built-in synth.
….aaaaannnnd, why not one more for good measure….
8. Sonicism vintage vocoder DX(Windows)
This vocoder is a DirectX plugin. You can use it in Wavosaur with a VST-DX wrapper, such as ffx4 by VB Audio.
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The Best Vocoder Plugins:
Here is an awesome list of the 7 best free vocoder VST/AU plugins for Windows and Mac ! You want to make some robotic voice effects and speech synthesis ? Get one of those free vocoder VST and start generate powerful robotic harmonies and design your own unique vocal effects!
But first, what is a Vocoder?
“A vocoder (/ˈvoʊkoʊdər/, short for voice encoder) is a category of voice codec that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption, voice transformation. The vocoder has also been used extensively as an electronic musical instrument . The decoder portion of the voice encoder, called a voder, can be used independently for speech synthesis.
Source : Wikipedia
Source : Wikipedia
The 7 Free Vocoder VSTi:
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1 – AC vocoder:
Thisbasicvoice encodermodulates theinput signalwith tones. Perfcet simple plugin for voice / distortion. AC vocoder was developped by AaronCavanaugh (Visit theauthor’s website).
Download the Windowsplug-in (2427.4 KB):
2 – BufferOverride 2.0
Buffer Override edit the host application buffer and plays with as with a rubber band. The result is a distortion sound that sounds like a Vocoder or a weird drum machine sound. Furthermore, in some hosts, you can also “play” Buffer Override via MIDI notes and even sync it to song tempo.
Visit the author’s site: Destroy FX
Download the VST:
Sound Example:
3 – Voctopus
Next one is Voctopus VST, an 8 bands vocoder with integrated synthesizer that was made with SynthEdit.
[notification type=”alert-warning” close=”false” ][icon type=”glyphicon glyphicon-alert”] Warning: filters of voctopus are CPU resource intensive and does not always work on the voice.[/notification]Features:
- Any type of audio file can be chosen as Carrier and Modulating
- 8-band filter with 8 attack, Decay
- Separate volume control for modulating and carrier
- Pan
- Control Dry / Wet
Synthesizer features:
- 2 x dual oscillator with dual detune
- Waves Sine, saw, triangle and square
- Octave, semitone and fine tuning
- Hardsync
- Modular white noise generator or 2 per oscillator with high-pass filter
- FM
- Ring modulation
Download the Windows plug-in (1490.25 KB):
4 – Mini Voctopus
In addition to Voctopus, SoundBox released a basic version of his 8 bands Voice encoder made with SynthEdit, Mini Voctopus.
Use any audio as the modulator and any audio as the carrier, 8 Band filter bank with attack, decay and extra carrier gain, Seperate modulator and carrier volume controls, Pan, Dry/wet control.
Download the Windows plug-in in zip format (948.54 Kb):
Mini Voctopus in use :
5 – Trash Coder
TrashCoder is a small but interesting vocoder capable of producing warm analog type sounds as well as rough metalic ones.
Free Vocoder Software Synthesizer
TrashCoder simulates analog filters that can be controlled in different ways. Filter banks (shapers) are used to generate classical sounds such as morphing robot voices but also less traditional, more chopped, sounds.
- Works in real time
- Each VST track can be used in Carrier or modulating
- Modulator cutoff frequency
Free Vocoder Plugins
Download the Windows plug-in version (36.74 KB)
6 -Talk Box by MDA:
Talkbox is a high resolution voice encoder. It is not as complete as the other vocoders in this list, but you can get some great sounds out of it if you experiment. Especially relevant if you like to use a range of vocoders on various vocal samples or bass sounds for example. It gives a nice natural sound, less metallic than the others plugins here !
Free Vocoder Software Mac
Download the plug-in (1242.02 KB):
The download includes 30 plugins including this one.
7 – TAL-Vocoder by Togu Audio Line
TAL-Vocoder is a vintage voice encoder emulation with 11 bands that emulates the sound of vocoders from the early 80’s.
This voice encoder is optimized for voice processing and includes some algorithms for consonants to make the voice more intelligible. The carrier signal is a VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) with a Pulse, Saw, Noise and SubOsc. Key features:
- 11 band vocoder engine.
- Internal carrier synth (pulse, saw, sub osc, noise, mono, poly, portamento, sync mode, tune).
- Harmonic control (adds more harmonics to any carrier signal)
- “Ess” enhancer for a clean understandable voice, also with a carrier that hasnt much high frequencies.
8 – [BONUS] Other Great Free Vocoders:
- Vocovee by g200kg(Windows) – A VST ‘Effect’ version of the VOCOV Voice encoder
- Sonicism vintage vocoder DX(Windows) – a DirectX plugin
- Vocoder by MDA – Switchable 8 or 16 band vocoder with separate “VocInput” plug-in
- Plogue | Alter/Ego :: Real-time singing synthesizer
I hope you’ll appreciate this ! If you know any other great vocoder plugins, just leave a comment!