harmonizer
Articles about harmonizer:
Muzemazer has introduced the Chromavoder, a musical instrument harmonizer featuring two voices of polyphonic chromatic transposition with an eight octave range, breakthrough physics simulation for naturally transposed sound without delay or artifacts and the playable feel of a tuned musical instrument.
Features:
- Two independent voices each transposing individual notes and chords
- Chromatic interval transposition down or up as much as four octaves
- Natural sounding physics simulation without delay or artifacts
- An instrument itself with an eight octave extended-piano range
- Custom programmed module for ToneCore pedals and docks
TC-Helicon has released VoiceTone Synth, a vocal effects pedal designed to create extreme, exotic and contemporary vocal sounds, like jagged HardTune effects, classic vocoder effects, a voice-controlled synthesizer and vocal distortion and megaphone effects.
Features:
- HardTune effect with user-selectable key or instrument-sensing
- Vocoder carrier can be driven by internal voice-controlled synth or instrument input (such as guitar)
- Transducer effects, such as megaphones, distortion and radio voices
- All effects can run simultaneously
- Includes Tone feature for adaptive live engineer sound processing
- Presets that can be edited and stored
- Instrument Thru allows normal instrument amplification and vocoding
TC-Helicon’s VoiceTone Synth will retail for US $395.
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The Boss VE-20 Vocal Performer
BOSS has introduced a twin-pedal stompbox for performing vocalists, the VE-20 Vocal Performer.
Features:
- Specialized effects for vocalists, including Harmony, Double-Track, Dynamics, Reverb, Delay, and more
- Create the total of 3-part harmonies and layers
- Realtime pitch-correction tools
- Special FX, including Distortion, Radio and Strobe
- Phrase Looper with 38 seconds (mono) of recording time
- Phantom power for condenser microphones
- Runs on six AA-batteries or AC adaptor (PSA)
- Easy operation, road-tough BOSS construction
In Praise Of Auto-Tune
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Filed under: Computer Music, Software Effects & Audio Processors
Frieze Magazine has published a article that takes a contrarian look at the musicality of Auto-Tune.
Author Jace Clayton first recognizes the fact that many musicians hate AutoTuned vocals:
Vocal purists hate Auto-Tune. They hear in its robotic modulations some combination of sugar-rush novelty, bulldozed nuance, jejune synthetics, loss of ‘soul’, disdain for innate vocal talent, teen-optimized histrionics, emotional anemia, and/or widespread musical decline. It’s ugly.
Discussing US R&B singer T-Pain’s Auto-Tune-aided hits in 2007, music critic Jody Rosen declared that, ‘T-Pain represents a kind of symbolic severing of African-American music from its traditional emotionalism […] the impassioned melismas that have powered black popular singing for decades are smoothed into synthetic gasps.’
Clayton goes on, though, to suggest that Auto-Tune is leading to a Man-Machine hybrid vocal style:
In an era of powerful computers that allow one to audition all manner of effects on vocals after the recording session, recording direct with Auto-Tune means full commitment. There is no longer an original ‘naked’ version. This is a cyborg embrace. In Cyborg Manifesto (1991), Donna Haraway notes that ‘the relation between organism and machine has been a border war.’ Auto-Tune’s creative deployment is fully compatible with her ‘argument for pleasure in the confusion of boundaries and for responsibility in their construction.’
What do you think? Are there artists that you think are using Auto-Tune to create cyborg art?
In Harmony is an Electro-Harmonix Voice Box demo video.
The Voice Box is an intelligent vocal harmony machine/ vocoder. Details below. Read more…
