Re: vocoder pitch-shifting

[Scott McGregor Moore <scott@dreamstate.to>]

>
>Now if you shift one of the components off to the side so that whereas 
>before
>the
>100Hz->200Hz band on the analyser was wiggling the 100Hz-200Hz slider on 
>the
>graphic eq it now wiggles the 600->700Hz slider you've ended up with a 
>pitch
>shift
>of sorts... even weirder things can happen if you flip one unit round so 
>all the
>high
>tones in the 'voice' signal are modulating the low tones on the synth 
>signal,
>IIRC some early analogue vocoders used to have a patch bay to allow this 
>sort
>of experimentation. nowadays when it would be really easy to do this sort 
>of
>thing digitally no one seems to go beyond the norm.. pity :-)

The Nord Modular vocoder allows this type of crossing patching
and includes a randomizer which can produce some fun results.

Cheers,
Scott M2

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