Get Creative with Your Vocals

Vocal processing techniques are complicated but represent a never-ending creative process with countless different manipulation approaches. One of the most innovative ways to alter the vocals is pitch editing with the help of vocoder effects. Check out the following tutorial to find out more.   

VocalSynth by Izotope

Izotope VocalSynth is an electronic vocal transformer plugin that contains four engines, five effects, and an auto-tuner. It possesses cutting-edge vocal editing abilities. You can manipulate vocals to create electronic vocal textures, robot sounds, computerized harmonies, vocoder, talkbox effects, thick octaves or doubles, and everything in between. So, let's dive into this awesome plugin and explore some of its main features. I placed a short vocal recording on a newly created audio track within SoundBridge. 

~Vocal - Unprocessed

 

Let's Start

Firstly, I will load a new instance of VocalSynth on the Vocal MIDI channel. Upon opening the VocalSynth interface, we see the top section containing an Auto-tuner. Below is the main area with four processors - Polyvox, Compuvox, Vocoder, and Talkbox. Furthermore, a section for adding additional voices is very suitable for creating vocal harmonies. You can add a unison up to superoctave.

Additionally, there is a mixer for these four processors. Last but not least, in the lower section of the VocalSynth interface, we can see an effect part containing five excellent sounding effects - Distort, Filter, Transform, Shred, and Delay. I will start by pitch-correcting the vocal. The root key is set to D, and the scale is Minor.  

~Vocal - Vocalsynth Pitch correction  

Creating Harmony

After that, let's continue by adding the vocal processors. The first one will be Polyvox, and I used it to add voice to create harmony.  

~Vocal - P.C.. + Polyvox + Vocoder  

Final Touch

Finally, I will engage the effect section to apply some distortion, Filter transform, and a slight delay. I want to make some final adjustments and polish the sound even further. To conclude, let us hear the processed vocal. 

~Vocal - P.C.. + Polyvox + Vocoder + Effects