Re: [AH] Novel Vocoder Application

From negativesaucer
Sent Fri, Jan 5th 2018, 16:29

I know I used to use Orange on everything except vocals.

there are no rules in electronic music.  run whatever you want into
whatever else.  as long as there is audio and no smoke, its probably
fine.

On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 9:07 AM, DJ Maytag <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> There are some interesting non-robot voice uses for the vocoder in Reason=
,
> but I=E2=80=99m not sure if those translate well into the hardware world.=
 There was
> a period of time where I was using the built in vocoder as a send effect =
for
> drum loops, but I don=E2=80=99t recall how exactly it worked (it was more=
 of a
> multiband processor). I=E2=80=99ll have to call an old project up and try=
 to
> describe it.
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 6:01 AM Mark C <xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote=
:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The Vocoder gives seems like a device you start using and then get bored
>> of the single 'robotic voice' application, but there has to be more to i=
t
>> than that. Does anyone have any good examples of Vocoders being used in
>> tracks in an original or non-standard way?
>>
>> I'll kick off with Kraftwerk's Space-lab, the intro gradually
>> speeds/pitches up apparently utilising a Sennheiser VSM vocoder feeding =
back
>> into itself. A pitch shifting effect with bandpass filters might be uniq=
ue
>> to this device and it is featured on the product demo tape which, I gues=
s,
>> predates Space-lab.
>>
>> This may be a topic dominated by the more feature rich Sennheiser and EM=
S
>> devices but it would be great to hear of a really simple (but original)
>> usage as well.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark