VirSyn has released iVoxel, a vocoder app previously only available for iOS, for Macintosh.
iVoxel is a combination of a voice optimized synthesizer and a vocoder. The vocoder part is based on the Matrix vocoder from VirSyn, used by Kraftwerk. The channel filters used by iVoxel are based on the Sennheiser Vocoder VSM201 resulting in a rich and fat analogue sound characteristic.
Note that this is a standalone virtual instrument, not a plugin.
Features:
- Realtime analysis/resynthesis of your voice.
- 20 Channel vocoder.
- Voice spectrum recorder (voxels).
- Over 200 prerecorded voxels included.
- Play your vocoded voice live on keyboard. Drag for slides and vibrato. .
- CoreMIDI support allows use of external MIDI keyboard.
- Monophonic sequencer for notes & lyrics.
- Voice optimized polyphonic synthesizer.
- Time warping of voxels.
- Gender changer.
- Breath noise.
- 12dB Lowpass filter.
- Pitch vibrato with delay.
- Chorus/Delay effects.
- Export of audio recordings.
iVoxel is available in the Mac App Store for $23.99.
Give me an AU version and we're talking.
Agreed. The App Store idea is cool, but they need to figure out a way to support Audio Units!
No! It's GREAT that they don't support Audio Units. I'm so tired of every cool sound hack or sound processing tool being a damn Audio Unit which means it needs a host application like Logic or Reason or Digital Performer or whatever. I don't want to purchase a huge, expensive, monstrosity of a resource-hog app just so I can use 1% of it… specifically the part that lets me use the OrangeVocoder Audio Unit as a live, real-time vocoder. I don't need sequencing or digital mixing or beat slicing or transposition or composition or whatever else these things do. Why should I pay for all that stuff when I'm not gonna use it? I need only real-time vocoding and iVoxel is perfect for that. It's about dang time they made a stand-alone vocoder for the Mac. Thank God iVoxel is not an Audio Unit! Finally, there is a real-time vocoder for Mac OS X that isn't an Audio Unit!
What about Rax as an AU instrument host? It's cheap(ish), and does nothing much but host AU instruments without being a hog. There's always MainStage if you already have Logic, but if you don't, try Rax. http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/rax/
What about Rax as an AU instrument host? It's cheap(ish), and does nothing much but host AU instruments without being a hog. There's always MainStage if you already have Logic, but if you don't, try Rax. http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/rax/
What about Rax as an AU instrument host? It's cheap(ish), and does nothing much but host AU instruments without being a hog. There's always MainStage if you already have Logic, but if you don't, try Rax. http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/rax/
What about Rax as an AU instrument host? It's cheap(ish), and does nothing much but host AU instruments without being a hog. There's always MainStage if you already have Logic, but if you don't, try Rax. http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/rax/
What about Rax as an AU instrument host? It's cheap(ish), and does nothing much but host AU instruments without being a hog. There's always MainStage if you already have Logic, but if you don't, try Rax. http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/rax/
What about Rax as an AU instrument host? It's cheap(ish), and does nothing much but host AU instruments without being a hog. There's always MainStage if you already have Logic, but if you don't, try Rax. http://www.audiofile-engineering.com/rax/