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2007 NAMM Show: DigiTech, a manufacturer of musical instrument signal processors, and a Harman International, announced two new vocal effects processors - the Vocalist Live 2 and Vocalist Live 4 vocal harmony and effects floor processors for performing guitarists.
Utilizing DigiTech’s MusIQ technology, the Vocalist Live processors generate intelligent, multi-part vocal harmonies using the singer’s voice. [...]

Celemony Software has announced the fall release of Version 3 of the legendary audio software Melodyne for Mac and PC. Melodyne3 offers a new algorithm that allows any type of audio material to profit from Melodyne’s unique editing functions and sound quality; in other words, Melodyne is no longer limited to the editing of melodies [...]

Digidesign will be bundling Melodyne essential free of charge with the Pro Tools software from September 2005. Pro Tools users will benefit from Melodyne’s unique functions for pitch correction, vocal production and melody editing.
Melodyne essential is a cut-down version of Melodyne uno. It works like a sample editor and offers many of Melodyne’s unique audio [...]

Version 1.6 of Voxformer is now available. Voxformer is a multi-functional vocal channel strip plug-in in PC VST format. Combining several professional quality processing modules, Voxformer was designed to be a comprehensive solution for all your vocal processing needs - be it spoken or sung vocals.
This version features several minor issue fixes. It also features [...]

Virsyn sends word that “Cantor, die vocal machine, singt nun auch deutsch. (Cantor, the vocal machine, sings also in German now). For musicians that don’t need a virtual German, Virsyn has added and improved other features, also. Cantor 1.6 also offers a MIDI import function, which can read embedded lyrics. Choir rendering lets users create [...]

2005 NAMM Show: Aphex Systems showed their new Model 230 Master Voice Channel at the Winter NAMM show. Combining several of the company’s proprietary technologies in preamplification, dynamics processing, psychoacoustics and more, the Model 230 Master Voice Channel is now shipping to Aphex dealers with a suggested retail price of $799.

“The Model 230 provides solutions [...]

VirSyn has released Cantor 1.5, a completely revised version of their vocal synthesis application.
The upgrade makes it much easier to produce intelligible vocal lines. This is achieved with an improved filter model and a new kind of rule-based phoneme sequencer which adapts the phoneme transitions according to the context inside a word.

Cantor’s main purpose is [...]

TC-Helicon has announced the VoiceLive, a voice processor for live performance. Built in a sturdy floor case, the VoiceLive is like a stompbox for vocalists.
VoiceLive is a floor processor aimed at musicians who want complete control of their vocal sound on stage. That sound includes EQ, Compression, pitch correction, natural harmony and vocal effects.
“The need [...]