Reason 2.5 Vocoder - Tips? Tricks?

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Anyone use it yet? Cool thing is apparently any sound source can be a carrier - potentially big improvement over Cubase's stock carrier tone.

Sounds like a great opportunity for some sonic mayhem, but I haen't tried it yet (Toime, cap'n! Oi've got to have morrre toime!).

Any input appreciated. SWAGs welcome in the absence of concrete experience...;)
 
Well, with vocoders in general, overtone rich stuff as a carrier is usually good, or you won't have anything for the filters to shape. ;)

Haven't used Reasons, though.
 
adding some distortion to the carrier signal can help compensate for a lack of overtones...

also, seriously compress the vocal signal being chained into the vocoder, and you will have an easier time.

some crappy vocoders (you will find out if reason has one) are bad at sssess and plosives (made worse when you compress the vocal signal). my digitech talker lets them right through without processing them... sounds terrible. a de-esser and some good mic technique will help.

you dont need the best mic to vocode with, i would recomend a 57 with a big wind screen. if you use that, you should be able to do without much processing of the seessssess and plosives

also, using a drum track for a vocal signal is a pretty basic trick, works pretty well. great for cleaning up bad snare tracks..
 
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