Need heavily robotic, synthesized vocals

[Pinky]

I'm looking for a plugin suggestion for heavily synthesizing vocals to make them sound robotic. Naturally, I work for a living and have little money to spend on a song that isn't ever going to generate its own production revenue, so free or trial-ware is preferred.

[I current have Sound Forge 6 and Cool Edit Pro 2, if that helps (I only have a handful of plugins, however). I have Sonar but choose not to use it as Pro Audio 9 works just fine for my purposes.]

editted, had wrong version of cool edit listed

 

[mjbee]

Cooledit Pro 3?

CoolEdit Pro is available as 1.2a or 2.0.

Versions higher than this are available on Kazaa and other "file sharing" sites. They are just virus riddled files designed to catch people out who won't pay for the software.

Are you sure it's CEP 3?

 

[Pinky]

Cooledit Pro 3?

CoolEdit Pro is available as 1.2a or 2.0.

Versions higher than this are available on Kazaa and other "file sharing" sites. They are just virus riddled files designed to catch people out who won't pay for the software.

Are you sure it's CEP 3?

Nope, it's 2.0 then, I never use that either... used it to remove clipping from Vapor Trails many moons ago and haven't gone back since, hell I'm not even sure if it's trial version or not... I'll know when I get home and it doesn't work.

Soundforge is 100% legit and I use it all the time (that much I can be sure of ).

So, other than pointing out an obvious flaw in my post, can u been of assistance?

 

[Seanmorse79]

look here..

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio.htm

There are some great shareware plugins you could use for this. You could use a vocoder and/or a sharply set autotune, and blend with some other effects to taste.

I'd give the vocoder a shot first.

 

[Pinky]

look here..

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/audio.htm

There are some great shareware plugins you could use for this. You could use a vocoder and/or a sharply set autotune, and blend with some other effects to taste.

I'd give the vocoder a shot first.

Excellent, that was the kind of lead I was hoping for

(and analogx makes good stuff too)

 

[Seanmorse79]

yes they do. I still use the arpeggiator every now and again. The vocoder takes a bit of practice, but it's worth the effort.

 

[Jagular]

Whoa...they have an autotune there....hehehe...

 

[Seanmorse79]

Yeah ...kinda hard not to chuckle at that one. Good for special effects though ...used with caution. Any resemblence to that stupid Cher song will guarantee an ass whippin'

 

[Pinky]

yes they do. I still use the arpeggiator every now and again. The vocoder takes a bit of practice, but it's worth the effort.

Impossible to use, I can't figure it out. I'm not into the whole 'manual' thing and hate midi for that reason, give me a pretty picture to chop, some menus to play with, buttons to push...

 

[darwin]

This is a free thing that you can try. Record the words in the sentence that you are going to say in a random order. Make sure that you say them without any special pronunciation. ie the kind of pronunciation that the context of a sentence would give. Then, take the phrases and use your audio editor to put them back together in a sentence. Give it a try.

 

[Pinky]

lol Darwin, that's a great idea... but I finished using yet another plugin (4ormulator Basic for directx)

here's what I was aiming for, more/less:

Perfunctory

 

[Seanmorse79]

Very cool. It makes me think of that old Earth Wind & Fire song.

As long as we're on the topic (kind of), does anybody know if there's a program that does "speak & spell" type voice synthesis?

 

[muskgrave]

FruityLoops 3.56

newer versions of fruityloops have a speech synthesis plugin that says words you type in..it has another plugin that will do all sorts of weird things to your voice...it also does tons more as well...so maybe not as cost effective as you were looking for...
dlv

 

[Chrisjob]

SimpleText on a Mac does voice synthesis with about 15 different voices (Well, it did back in 1997 when I used a Mac, it might have 100 voices now, or might not even exist)

The FruityLoops Vocal deal works just fine


Muskgrave- what's the other plugin you were talking about>?

 

[Pinky]

Windows XP Pro has built-in speech recognition as well, don't think you can record it within windows though.