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routing vocoders into effect parameters

Date: May 26, 2009 @ 9:53 PM

if we took a vocoder, and used it to affect the parameters of an external effect(delay...harmonizers), by translating the vocoder\'s signal into the effect\'s parameter language(MIDI...logarithmic), it would be pretty fucking awesome.

someone must have tried something like this, I suppose the kaoss pad 3 would be a good contender. just a little soldering and a basic microprocessor.

zedsalt

Date: May 27, 2009 @ 10:09 AM

I would think it would be doable...I mean, the vocoder's already using one signal to effect certain parameters of another...how hard could it be to apply the same conversion to other settings?
And my hope would be that it would have some interesting and musical glitches. For a harmonizer, a pentatonic/chaotic switch would probably come in handy, though.

My tune "Dearwood", posted here includes some interesting and musical sons of glitches. What I did was use a freeware pitch-to-MIDI package, a freeware MIDI host, and a freeware Mellotron emulator. That mess took a simple monophonic synth lead and...thanks to the far-from-perfect conversion...twisted it into a mad genius freakout.

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