Realtime Pitch Tracking Vocoder Processing Effect (Heavy Lifting)

Pretty much what the title says

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1.2 (Updated 17 years ago)
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March 10, 2008
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DESCRIPTION

This upload consists of three instruments and is essentially just a convience upload as I couldn't find anything in the user library that did this (Although, I didn't look very hard)

[in] ->
Reaktorfreak's Synvoicizer ->
Factory Default Sumsynth ->
EzFFT Vocoder ->
[your ears]

Basically, Reaktorfreak's instrument acts as a audio->midi processor, it detects pitch and emits MIDI notes. Which get sent to Sumsynth, then the original audio is used as the modulator and the output of Sumsynth is used as the carrier.

The end result is a coarse realtime automatic pitch adjusting vocoder, which in theory should sound like a wild pack of Cher's, but ends up sounding kind of neat regardless. Big ups to Reaktorfreak.

I should note that this is a fairly power hungry ensemble, it's basically three random ensembles slapped together, two of which require a lot of CPU by default. On my dualcore 2.6ghz it hits 30% when running, 15% when idle. But it was stable enough to use as an effect on an Ableton Live Audio track with randomly triggering samples.

COMMENTS  (11)

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Marcel Stark
8 years ago
Great. Here your pitch detector really work! Thx!
Florian Kaeppler Komponist
13 years ago
How can I open it on Ableton?
Bertrand Antolin
15 years ago
It's been more than a year already, why you haven't updated it yet ? You promised you're gonna fix the pitch detection stuff, people are waiting you know..
Michael Irslinger
16 years ago
Excellent. This ensemble is a permanent resident in my default songs now. I'm getting amazing sounds out of this.
Nathan Ramella
17 years ago
I recant on the documentation, it's not worth it until I fix the pitch detection stuff to be less prone to error. The ensemble does work (drop it on an audio track as an effect, doodle around with the synvoisizer knobs until you get the pitch detection right and it should make some interesting noises) Consider this a proof of concept. :D
Christopher Soulos
17 years ago
No sound and lots of crashing. A noise spike when changing audio inputs is all i got,,, On a new iMac. Sounds like an interesting idea, would love to see it work. Can't vote on it till it actually works, I'm sorry...
Nathan Ramella
17 years ago
Yeah, I should note probably the coolest thing about this ensemble is Reaktorfreak's Synvoicizer -- the audio to midi pitch tracking really is a great tool for the building arsenal.
Dieter Zobel
17 years ago
oh, a pitch tracker. my guitar is pleased. much thanks.
Nathan Ramella
17 years ago
Ok, sounds like you got the ens sorted out. :D I'll write up a small manual on how to use it and update the zip file later today.
Mark Mcdonald
17 years ago
I don't know what the above was about. I like your MP3. That sounds good but I haven't had much luck getting that kind of sound out. I guess I will spend more time with it. It might be good to include a small manual for dummies like me.
Mark Mcdonald
17 years ago
How strange your .ens is not here for download. Sounds good hope this will get resolved.
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