BeepStreet has introduced DerVoco, a vintage vocoder emulation for iOS.
DerVoco uses analog modeled components including filters, envelope followers and companders to create a warm vintage sound.
Features:
- AUv3 Audio Effect and Audio Music Effect, works in all AUv3 compatible hosts.
- Internal polyphonic VCO may be used as a carrier and can be controlled via MIDI, when plugin is loaded as AU MFx.
- In special “input mode” carrier and modulator signals are mixed in left and right channels of stereo input signal. This way any synth plugin (e.g. Zeeon) may be used as a carrier signal.
- 11 or 15 bands with onscreen equalizer.
- Controllable filter resonance makes the sound smooth or sharp and ringing.
- Built in compressor and noise gate.
- Optimized: 60 filters take 4% CPU on latest iPads.
Here’s an unofficial video demo, via thesoundtestroom:
Pricing and Availability
DerVoco is available now for US $4.99. See the BeepStreet site for audio demos.
Gee – only 15 bands ?
I had a Novation KS which had a 40-band vocoder !
I`ll take 11/15 bands that sound good over 40 bands that sound mediocre 😉
Have you seen analog vocoder with 40 bands? 😀 Its not FFT, but tons of filters and envelope followers.. And it sounds different, yes mr. MK 🙂
Those Audio Units are getting more and more interesting. For this one use a carrier app, make a subgroup in AUM and there you go, lots of different sounds possible.
Almost half-way to what my laptop could do for 15 years. 😛
That’s called progress, stub. Hardware vocoders were replaced by software. Now software and hardware in a different form factor. iOS is going through a similar evolution that synths did in 80s to 90s, but at a more accelerated pace.