If you're looking for a similar sound to the processed vocal of Thom Yorke on their track Kid A - this is a great plugin to start with. I am quite fond of the Sonic Charge products. For the price, this is a fantastic plugin - you can't beat it! You want that speak and spell robot voice with a few simple parameter controls that enable midi control etc, this is the plugin to get. Much fun! ConclusionĪs the title of the plugin may suggest, this effect is primarily for use with monophonic vocal audio. Here's a vid giving a quick demo of Bitspeek's capabilities. Robot whisperings.Īnyway, enough of the technobabble. +100% makes the signal pretty much all noise, slightly filtered by the original audio. If you turn the noise to -100%, all the white noise will be removed from the outgoing signal. Noise - this allows white noise into the signal - to reflect consonants and transients in audio (speech). You can detune it up to an octave range away, enabling cool chord-like sounds, or just chorusy type sounds. Very cool, especially if you were using it live.ĭetune - there are actually two oscillators, and this detune affects the second one. There are some extra interesting elements here - for example you can use the midi pedal to immediately freeze the audio (take frame rate to 0). You can use midi to control the pitch and envelope of Bitspeek. When you turn it on, the frame rate changes from hertz to 1/8, 1/16 etc, syncing with the host tempo. The sync enables you to change the frame rate in time with the tempo of your music. The pitch moves around a lot more when the tracking percentage is higher. Tracking - determines how much the pitch of the incoming audio affects the outgoing signal. If you pull the frame rate down to zero - it basically makes the rate of change zero - essentially freezing the sound at that point. There are four different processing rates, that change the sound from smooth to more 8-bit distorted sound. The rate and frame rate are buttons to change the way Bitspeek receives and transforms the audio information. Four switches, four knobs and and oscillator view give you all the information you need: The GUI is reminiscent of the Speak and spell toy, in a very kitsch horrible beige color accented with red. If you're looking for a similar sound to the processed vocal of Thom Yorke on their track Kid A - this is a great plugin to start with. For people like me, who have no idea what any of that meant - they've made this cool vocoder thingy that makes vocal audio sound robotic-like.Īnd boy is it fun! There are several little parameters that can really mess with your voice and create some slightly robotizing effects to the audio signal, to vocoder-type sounds, and other cool effects. "RHODES" is a registered trademark of Joseph A Brandstetter.Sonic Charge, creators of the inventive synth Synplant, have updated a real-time pitch-excited linear prediction codec effect plugin, apparently based on the same technology that's used in cell phones to make 1's and 0's sound like your voice at the other end. Plugin Boutique or its Suppliers do not accept any liability in relation to the content of the product or the accuracy of the description. Any goodwill attached to those brands rest with the brand owner. Plugin Boutique do not have (nor do they claim) any association with or endorsement by these brands. For example references to instrument brands are provided to describe the sound of the instrument and/or the instrument used in the sample.
A host that supports 32-bit or 64-bit VST 2.4 plugins.2GHz Pentium IV processor or equivalent.Despite having only a few simple controls, this box can produce a broad range of sounds from cheap speaking toys to high-end vocoder and talkbox effects. Sonic Charge have applied this technology to create a VST / AU effect plug-in that analyzes audio, extracts a number of parameters (including pitch, volume and formant data) and then resynthesizes the audio using a simple oscillator, noise and filter architecture.Ī number of playback parameters that adjust the pitch and tonal quality of the sound as well as support for MIDI and a beat-synchronized "formant freezing effect" have been added.
Linear prediction coding is a voice compression technology that appeared in commercial products in the seventies and was implemented in some well-known speaking toys of the early eighties. Chances are that you have never heard about "linear prediction", although most of us use it daily when we talk on our cell phones. Right now you are probably thinking, "oh, another one of those"? Or perhaps not. Bitspeek is a real-time pitch-excited linear prediction codec effect.
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