July 18, 2018 | Resources, Special FX
What are multi-effect processors? Rather than using several individual signal processor “boxes”, many signal processing devices are designed so they can perform more than one function. This means that a single black box can create more digital effects. For...
May 30, 2018 | Resources, Special FX
DNA Direct Note Access™ is the technology which allows to identify and edit individual notes in the polyphonic material. The unique access that Melodyne™ has long offered to the pitch, timing, duration and other parameters of notes in the monophonic material is now...
April 18, 2018 | Resources, Special FX
Vocoder history The vocoder (voice coder) derives from work in the telecommunications field to compress the human voice for more efficient transmitting over the telephone line. Bell Labs, among other companies, was working on vocoder technology back in 1950`s....
April 25, 2018 | Resources, Special FX
Talk Box history The Talk Box dates back to at least 1939 when big band musician Alvino Rey used an early version. You can actually see Rey perform a slightly bizarre-sounding version of “St. Louis Blues” with “Stringy,” the talking...
May 9, 2018 | Resources, Special FX
Pitch correction entails being able to identify the pitch, determine the correct pitch, and process the track with the pitch correction. However, being able to correct a pitch in the studio has been a recent technological advancement. Since the beginning of digital...
June 6, 2018 | Resources, Special FX
What is an Exciter? An exciter (also called a harmonic exciter or aural exciter) is an audio signal processing technique used to enhance a signal by dynamic equalization, phase manipulation, harmonic synthesis of (usually) high-frequency signals. It...
