
Combining these with Little Alterboy could have great results. I'm not sure what your specific goal is, but these are fun devices for creating glitchy stuff. Also, Pitch Hack! Pitch hack is native in Live 11, otherwise download it for free in the Creative Extensions bundle. I've also heard good things about Mishby used with vocals and I believe they have a free option. If I had the cash and did a lot more pitch correction, I would probs swoop Melodyne.įor vocal glitches have you gone deep with Live's Simpler/Sampler techniques? You can get very far with those devices (see Sample Offset Modulation). I would look into the free Max4Live device " Autotuna " for pitch correction to see how far you can get without droppin' bucks. A lot of times I will use a high threshold gate on the clean signal and run that in parallel such that only the unpitched and initial transients come through and then seems to add a little edge to the sound that helps definition. Obviously I know about tricks like blending the clean back in to get more intelligibility, or increasing the bands, unpitched detection, or sometimes changing carrier. (A lot of people don't realize that Dieter Doepfer got his start doing custom sequencer building for Kraftwerk and then started Eurorack.) I'm not saying he was the first, but he figured out how to get those things to work on the record, or his crew. However I believe Ralf had access to some very early vocoders that were essentially made for working outside the audio band on telephones for multiplexing. I just happen to pick them because they do it best right now but I could just as easily mention Kraftwerk in certain instances. You can make out pretty much all the words on Around the World or other Daft Punk tracks.

Plugins like the stock Ableton vocoder still don't sound that good to me in terms of intelligibility, even using unpitched detection/mixing techniques.īy "intelligibility" you mean, their vocoded vocals very clean?Įxactly. Just so I'm 100% clear, I know that pre-processing is absolutely critical to the modulator signal on the vocoder, and I'm already doing as much of that as I can. Some of the others above with automation? Waves Tune Real-time (have always had good luck w/ Waves)


I want to get sounds similar to how intelligible a sound like Daft Punks vocoder vocals sound. I know a lot about vocoding techniques but my primary focus is intelligibility.

I'm looking to add more vocal production to my suite and specifically I want to be able to have:Īutotune - a gentle, transparent autotune plugin.Īutotune glitch - the kind of pop-glitch autotune you hear so frequently
