Waldorf has introduced Lector, a new vocoder for Windows and Mac.

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.

Lector is available now, for Windows and Mac (VST).

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