Vocoder Use

[GrooveNinja]

Does anyone know how to use the vocoder on the Virus TI to actually make an interesting sound? Is there a reference somewhere on what a vocoder does and how it works? I played around with all of the vocoder related settings, but all I could get from it was either really horrible, screechy noise or a bad sounding PA. I could hear how the microphone input sort of gated the selected patch, but that wasn't very interesting. Isn't this supposed to be the tool to make cool sounding space and robot vocal type sounds?

[Monobeat]

Good use for the TI vocoder...


1) Discussion threads about how much it blows.

2) Nothing to report quite yet.

[Malibu]

good luck....

[maelstrom808]

Originally Posted by Malibu

good luck....

As he said...good luck. As much as I have loved every Virus I've owned, the vocoders are crap, always have been. The only thing I have ever really managed to do with the vocoders is make very non-vocoderish noise patches.

[GrooveNinja]

Ok, I'll take the bait. What is so bad about the vocoder? I managed to get it to work last night, and it made what was, to me, a perfectly acceptable robot voice. I was singing, "Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto" all evening! It sounded much better than my normal singing voice.

[Monobeat]

Please post your ninja-ness samples so we can all be jealous.