At Musikmesse 2011, Waldorf introduced the Lector Vocoder, a new software vocoder for Mac & Windows.

Here’s what Waldorf has to say about Lector:

When we set out to develop the Lector, we looked long and hard at what it takes to make a powerful vocoder tick. This why you will find on the ergonomic user interface some special features and unusual parameters that let you tweak even the most minute details. The fabled Waldorf multimode filter with slope of 12dB or 24dB features prominently. You also get a whitening filter that bleaches the signal before it is colored by the vocoder. This comes in very handy when you’re processing choir and voice samples. A three-band equalizer serves to boost and cut whatever frequencies of the generated signal you wish to target.

The integrated 16-voice synthesizer sports two oscillators with quintessential analog waveforms such as sine, triangle, sawtooth, and square with variable pulse width, sample & hold and noise, as well as freely loadable single and multi-samples. FM and ring modulation enrich the vocoder’s signal with further overtone spectra. The Lector also offers a selection of typical effects used to refine vocoder signals – tube overdrive, transistor distortion and hard clipping, six-voice chorus / flanger, synchronizable stereo delay, and realistic reverb.

Here’s a video demo of the Waldorf Lector:

Features:

• 3 to 100 band Vocoder
• Adjustable range of Analysis Filter Bank
• Adjustable offsets and LFO modulation of Synthesis Filter Bank
• 3-band Equalizer with variable mid band
• Individual Compressors for Speech and Carrier signal
• Voiced / Unvoiced Detector
• Overdrive (types Tube, Diode, Clip)
• Stereo Chorus / Flanger, 2 to 6 stages
• Stereo Delay, syncronizable
• Reverb
• Sidechain input (VST 3 and Audio Unit)
• Carrier plug-in (VST 2)

16-voice Synthesizer (per voice):

• Polyphonic, Monophonic or Free-Running
• 2 Oscillators, waveforms sine, triangle, sawtooth, pulse with pulse width modulation, sample&hold, noise, single and multi sample playback
• FM
• Ring Modulation
• Portamento / Glissando
• 1 Filter, types Lowpass, Bandpass, Highpass, Notch (12dB and 24dB), Whitening
• 1 LFO, synchronizable, waveforms sine, triangle, sawtooth, square, sample&hold, noise
• 2 AR envelopes

The Waldor Lector is expected to be available in June for about €199 Euros (street).

via Sonic State