La Voz Cantante: a 512 Channel Vocoder

[wlangfor@uoguelph.ca]

You're the man MV, love this product!

[martinvicanek]

Hey fellas, I proudly present a new release of my vocoder "La Voz Cantante". It is a major upgrade, here is the list of new features and improvements:
New in Version 6B:

• Increased resolution to 1024 channels
• Full stereo processing
• Reduced latency
• Report latency to host
• GUI rework
• Reworked sibilant management (much improved!)
• Internal synth dynamic response
• Hide ADSR controls
• Added portamento
• Added delayed vibrato option
• New reverb powered by MVerb 7B engine (much improved!)
• Optimizations and bug fixes

(How the heck do you typeset bullet points?)

More info and download from my Web page at https://vicanek.de/audioprocessing/lavozcantante.htm.

Have fun!

[wlangfor@uoguelph.ca]

Great, thanks MV

Hey fellas, I proudly present a new release of my vocoder "La Voz Cantante". It is a major upgrade, here is the list of new features and improvements:
New in Version 6B:

• Increased resolution to 1024 channels
• Full stereo processing
• Reduced latency
• Report latency to host
• GUI rework
• Reworked sibilant management (much improved!)
• Internal synth dynamic response
• Hide ADSR controls
• Added portamento
• Added delayed vibrato option
• New reverb powered by MVerb 7B engine (much improved!)
• Optimizations and bug fixes

(How the heck do you typeset bullet points?)

More info and download from my Web page at https://vicanek.de/audioprocessing/lavozcantante.htm.

Have fun!

[DigiTonix]

Ohhh... My GUI !!!

[BobF]

Wow Martin,

You have out done yourself, this is really nice. Really clean and great sounding. If possible can a formant shift be added to this design of vocoder? Are we going to get an fsm for this one?

Keep up the great work, BobF.....

[martinvicanek]

DigiTonix, sorry about that. There are some new controls, and some of the previous controls have gone. I found it difficult to adapt the GUI to these changes. And frankly, I wanted something brighter, more vivid.

Bob, thank you for your kind words. Take a look at my post here, there is a schematic and formant shifting there.

[Spogg]

Martin, I finally just got to try this and the sound is excellent so many thanks.
I’m also very impressed with your user guide; very professional looking.

As always, I go out of my way to try to find issues, as I’m sure you know by now.
So here they are:

1) I couldn’t get your routing scheme to work in Reaper. The MIDI responded but I simply couldn’t get the microphone signal or an audio recording to register on the plugin. Finally, in desperation, I loaded the old test rpp I made for my BlueSky vocoder and replaced the plugin with yours and it worked.

The routing for this is:

• Track 1 VOZ with MIDI keyboard as input. VOZ loaded as regular FX and not input FX.
• Track 2 Microphone as input.
• VOZ: Master send ON. Receive from Microphone 1-2 to 1-2.
• Microphone: Master send OFF. Send to VOZ 1-2 to 1-2 Post fader.
• Both tracks had Recording armed and monitoring turned ON. I could then “play my voice”.

2) I couldn’t turn the Compressor or Noise gate off. The blue border went grey but the controls were still active.

3) If I spoke in a deep voice I just heard a whispered version so I had to speak in a higher register than my natural wonderful deep and chocolate tones.

I’m sure these will all be easy fixes for you and I hope you don’t mind me mentioning the points.

Cheers

Spogg

[DigiTonix]

Everything is OK, you should not apologize for this ...
I'm just kidding.
                                             (* ^ ω ^)
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Unfortunately, I can’t listen to this, because I’m such a trahapop who ruined his computer 4 times a month already ....
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I noticed that big changes are coming, and I am happy for myself, and for you all (* ≧ ω ≦ *)
I have long ago discovered that all the downloads on your site do not work for the flоwguru, I wonder what you are doing? ...
(I think you're hiding a bag of gold)

[martinvicanek]

Many thanks for all your comments. Thanks Spogg for thorough testing!
2) Indeed, that was a bug. Was not so hard to fix.
3) That was a good test! Yes, your natural voice pitch was out of range for my voiced/unvoiced checker. I am still unsure how to best fix it.
1) Hm, strange. In my Reaper I can either insert the plugin in the vocals track and sidechain the MIDI or vice versa - both options work without problems. Maybe I should better explain it in the manual.

[Spogg]

I tested in Reaper v5.974 32 bit.
I couldn't see why your routing scheme didn't work for me. I tried a lot of alternatives, all with the VOZ set as an input effect. The thing that made the difference was using it as a regular effect instead.

If you would like to pursue this, you could send me a rpp file and I could load it and see if it works. All I would need to do is add the VOZ from my own path.

Cheers

Spogg