VoCodeX

vocodex is a freeware vocoder plugin written in SuperCollider and converted to an AU plugin (mac OS X) with SupercolliderAU made by Gerard Roma. I made this plugin, not because I'm into DSP programming, or I want to make some cash, but because I upgraded to a Macbook and none of the damn freeware vocoders are universal binary...so I made my own...

it's still in the development stage (aka BETA)

System Requirements:
OS X 10.4
An AU host program to 
run the plugin (like Ableton Live or Logic or GarageBand)

Notes on using VoCodex:

INSTALLATION:

1.Download VoCodeX for Intel Macs Download VoCodeX for PPC

2. Mount the vocodex disk image and
drag the Vocodex file onto you hard drive
into your /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/Components directory.

3. Start your AU host software!

HOW TO MAKE THE ROBOT SPEAK:
The plugin works like most other vocoder plugins...

if saying that doesn't help you much... here is a tutorial for using a vocoder in Live

Basically, you put the vocoder on one track and then make two other tracks, one for the carrier and one for the modulator. Pan the carrier to the left and pan the modulator to the right and send the output of both tracks to the track that has the vocoder. Make sure you set the monitoring of the track with the vocoder on it to In...and disable other inputs to the track so you don't pick up any unwanted noise.

the plugin has 10 parameters right now (I'm working on adding more), eventually I'd like the carrier signal to be a full synthesizer with LFOs and filters...stay tuned

• dryModMix: controls how much of the unvocoded modulator signal pass
• outputscaling: this controls the output level of the vocoder, if you want to hear anything you'll need to turn this up.
• ModHPFfreq: this sets the cutoff frequency of the highpass filter on the dry modulator signal...it is often useful to let a little of the high end modulator signal through to make the vocoder more intelligible
• sawFreq: this controls the frequency of the built-in saw wave oscillator that is fed into carrier signal
• sawLevel: this controls the volume of the saw wave oscillator
• sqrFreq: this controls the frequency of the built-in square wave oscillator that is fed into carrier signal
• sqrPulseWidth: this sets the pulse width of the square wave, obviously a pulse width of 0 or 1 isn't a wave, so you can't hear it...anything between 0 and 1 should be audible though
• sqrLevel: this controls the volume of the square wave oscillator fed into the carrier signal
• noiselevel: sets the level of a white noise generator that is fed into the carrier signal
• beesAttackJessMcClain: this is the sound of Jesse McClain aka Paraclude being attacked by bees...this controls the level of the sound that is fed into the carrier