VOLTLIFE: Verbos HO weird vocoder

[@Richard_Danielson]

Love the sounds of the Harmonic osc. Also a very cool an clever patch! Great video and great setup! Thanks!

[@wellurban]

+Richard Danielson Thank you! I keep finding new ways to use the Harmonic Osc.

[@theDelinquenC]

If i were to run a sine wave into the bark filter, would i get similar results as the harmonic oscillator do you think, or will they give very different results? I've been looking at the HO a lot but i'm thinking i might get a much wider and better module for my money if i grab the bark filter have you used it?

[@wellurban]

I haven't used one, but for these purposes, the Bark Filter would probably be a lot better. Rather than a sine wave, you'd need to put in something with lots of harmonics like a sawtooth, or even better a chord, since a classic vocoder shapes an incoming signal rather than synthesising a signal from scratch, which is what I tried to do here. Combining the Res EQ's outputs with a Bark Filter will still not be ideal, since the band frequencies won't match, but it might still be very interesting. You could get a rough-ish vocoder using the Bark Filter on its own, with the odd frequency bands analysing the vocal input and imposing its dynamics on the even frequency bands, but it'll still be fairly unintelligible due to the limited number of bands. That's why I'm holding out for the Frap Tools' Fumana, since it's a dual-16 band filter bank rather than a single 12-band one: it'll probably be much more expensive, but if you want real analogue vocoding, there's no way around that! Nevertheless, the Bark Filter's vocoder patch makes for interesting effects on drums etc, definitely better than I'm getting here.

[@theDelinquenC]

Thanks man! appreciate the detailed answer

[@gvickerschtick]

Wow! What's the multiband filter you're using?

[@wellurban]

+gvickerschtick It's the Serge Resonant EQ. This is a recent version, with individual outs.