Where is the VST folder? computer>programfiles(X86)>VSTĪnd because I see a lot of confusion on hear about how to use a vocoder I will explain.įirst, to describe what a vocoder does. Now if you don't know what a VST is or how to use them that sucks, but I'm sure you can find a post on here that explains how to download the 32-bit VST (mixcraft dosen't take 64-bit) and then drop its. One is the TAL-vocoder-2 and the other is MDA vocoder (which i got with a bunch of other mda vsts.) That being said I Have two free vocoder VST's that are great! But what do I know. Make sure to place the Dubler microphone and your other microphone close to each other so that they both pick up your voice while performing.I have little to no experience with vocoders. On Windows computers Dubler is unfortunately unable to act as both an audio and MIDI input at the same time so for the audio input you would require a second microphone. The next step is loading up the vocoder on the audio channel and selecting the MIDI channel in the carrier dropdown list. As a result, all you have to do is make sure to select Dubler as your audio input, create one audio channel that is receiving audio from your voice via Dubler, and create one MIDI channel with a synth loaded that is receiving MIDI from the Dubler software. When you have the Dubler software running it will both send MIDI to your DAW and appear as an audio input option in your preferences. On Mac computers, Dubler can provide both the audio and MIDI signal at the same time. Even if the MIDI channel is muted - which it should be because you don’t want the raw sound of the synth to be heard while using it as a vocoder input - the vocoder will still pick up its signal. The vocoder then has an ‘External Carrier’ dropdown list that allows you to choose which MIDI channel it gets an input from. In Ableton, the Vocoder audio effect is placed on the audio channel with an audio input set up for a microphone.
Most of Daft Punk’s signature vocoder sounds, like the one in ‘Around the World’ for example, use square-wave-based synth sounds as the vocoder MIDI input.
The vocoder’s character, sound and musical notes come from the synth loaded on the MIDI channel with a while the vocals or spoken word comes from the audio input. As mentioned above, a common vocoder setup requires both an audio and a MIDI input.