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Simple Media Voc One - Free

Simple Media Voc One is an 8 note polyphonic, analogue choir with formant filter. Choirs can give any kind of music a lift, but sampled choirs are not versatile and many vocal synthesize concentrate so hard on trying to sing a lyric that they forget to carry a tune. Ever wondered how Tomita created such convincing choir sounds. Voc one is different, using a simple analogue synthesizer to simulate the glottal pulse or pulses and then using a powerful, morphable formant filter bank to give a realistic, warm and flexible vocal quality.

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Voc One - Free

Voc One features:

full control over each stage of the vocal synthesis
morphable formant filter with 11 recognised phonetic vowel spectra
morphing between vowels sounds subtle and natural
control over the register of the formant filter and the emphasis to give a much greater range of possible vocal types
8 presets plus room for 8 more
built in high quality reverb (UDReverb based on freeverb - thanks to Elogoxa and David Haupt for this)
lots of potential for experimentation.

Instructions:
To install simply unzip (unrar) and copy the dll to your VSTI plugins folder.

Controls and usage:

Shape - controls the pulse width of the analogue synth
Thickness - detunes the 2 oscillators to produce a chorusing effect
ADSR - basic amplitude envelope for the analogue synth
Breath 1 and Breath 2 - control the tonal quality and amount of breathyness
Cutoff and Res - the analogue synth and breathy synth are filtered through a 12db per octave band pass filter - this can self oscillate
Morph - controls the morphing between one formant bank and the other; note this is a morph, not a mix, so the effect is to change the formant not to combine 2 different formants
Emphasis - controls the resonance of the formant banks, at a low value sounds are synthetic and not at all vocal, at high values the sound has a rich vocal quality - the formant filter banks can self oscillate
Register - the combined frequencies of the formant banks can be shifted up and down to change the vocal register using this control
Rate and Amount - controls the frequency and amplitude of a basic LFO - the four small knobs control how much the LFO is sent to the other controls for morph, pan, tremolo (amplitude) and vibrato (pitch)
Reverb - on/off switch and controls for the size of the acoustic space and the dry/wet mix
Velocity - how much key velocity effects amplitude
Pan - sets position of sound in stereo image
Master - this is the master volume control for voc-one.

Tips:

low emphasis values can be used to create non-vocal sounds, that still have some of the formant quality, such as strings and accordians
there are known problems with SE synths and the creative ASIO driver when working in Orion, so please be aware of these
the large number of filters used mean that this synth is CPU intensive so if you wish to use multiple instances but have problems with CPU overload, try rendering out each instance to an audio file when finalising a track and muting instances that are not being worked on while creating a track
all the filters used can self oscillate to some degreee and this can cause overloading or distortion, but in some cases this may be desirable a they distortion has a warm, soft clipped sound - just watch those levels.

System requirements: