'voc-one'

Description

8 note polyphonic, analogue choir with formant filter..

CPU Usage - this is quite complex so CPU usage is high - sorry..

Instructions

To install simply unzip (unrar) and copy the dll to your VSTI plugins folder.

Controls -

  • Shape - controls the pulse width of the analogue synth

  • Thickness - detunes the 2 oscillators to produce a chorusing effect

  • A D S R - basic amplitude envelope for the analogue synth

  • Breath 1 and Breath 2 - control the tonal quality and amount of breathyness

  • Cutoff and Res - the analogue synth and breathy synth are filtered through a 12db per octave band pass filter - this can self oscillate

  • Morph - controls the morphing between one formant bank and the other; note this is a morph, not a mix, so the effect is to change the formant not to combine 2 different formants

  • Emphasis - controls the resonance of the formant banks, at a low value sounds are synthetic and not at all vocal, at high values the sound has a rich vocal quality - the formant filter banks can self oscillate

  • Register - the combined frequencies of the formant banks can be shifted up and down to change the vocal register using this control

  • Rate and Amount - controls the frequency and amplitude of a basic LFO - the four small knobs control how much the LFO is sent to the other controls for morph, pan, tremolo (amplitude) and vibrato (pitch)

  • Reverb - on/off switch and controls for the size of the acoustic space and the dry/wet mix

  • Velocity - how much key velocity effects amplitude

  • Pan - sets position of sound in stereo image

  • Master - this is the master volume control for voc-one.

Tips

  • low emphasis values can be used to create non-vocal sounds, that still have some of the formant quality, such as strings and accordians

  • there are known problems with SE synths and the creative ASIO driver when working in Orion, so please be aware of these

  • the large number of filters used mean that this synth is CPU intensive so if you wish to use multiple instances but have problems with CPU overload, try rendering out each instance to an audio file when finalising a track and muting instances that are not being worked on while creating a track

  • all the filters used can self oscillate to some degreee and this can cause overloading or distortion, but in some cases this may be desirable a they distortion has a warm, soft clipped sound - just watch those levels.