Vocoders can actually be useful and do not necessarily have to sound like a robot. If youre going to use this, you'll need 2 in-puts. One being a carrier wave, which is the sound you are going to vocode through and the 2 a modular voice, which will probably be yours. This provides a synthesiser sound that's easily recognised and in all sense has been utilized since the 1960s in known music.

Vocoders have a different number of bands, and the reason being is cause the modulator takes on your voice, dissects the essential parts which're the fundamental frequencies. Then these're changed into levels of amplitudes on a group of band pass filters. To make your voice more audible it needs more bands. Ultimately as these filter signals are carried onto the carrier wave the last sound is emulated.

To reach the basic robot effect you need the modulator to be speech, but you can utilize any thing you want as the carrier and the modulator to get other different sounds. For instance, if you wanted you could run instruments or other synthesiser through the modular in-put. Intriguing results are what you will get. Normally the carrier will be a agreeably huge synthesiser sound, like a string sound or still a long saw wave pad. You could use anything that had a couple of good depth and length to it though.

Hardware and software synthesiser that are computer at present possess vocoders as average features. Basically you just get your monies worth, when it comes to getting the sound of a dedicated analog vocoder. For example for around $1000 you might be able to pick up a Roland VP-300 that is in really great shape, but then the old Korg VC-10 could be had much less pricey and solider too. Then don't leave out the MicroKorg afterall it does have a microphone and its handily small and low-priced all at the same time.

Dont rule out the talk boxes for obtaining those robot voice simulations, as they dont all come from the vocoder.Then theres that increasingly popular auto tune software or speech synthesis.