Cyclick Samples - Talkies [WAV] -Sin

This sample collection gets vocalising with a set of five vocoding/voice manipulation processes to create
almost 300 words/phrases.These were all made from a long, long, long stripe of spoken words recorded with
the lovely Sennheiser MD441, usually three or four times with different inflections and at different speeds.
This was then used to feed a set of five processes, described below, which were then combed through for
the best vocoder/robot sounds. Where the sounds were tuned I have kept to either the key of A or C for the
sake of simplicity – this kind of raw material takes pitch shifting and time stretching very well, often further
enhancing its 'otherness'.

The five processes were set up thus:

BodeVoc
The vocal phrases were first compressed quite hard and fast with the Eventide Omnipressor plugin, which
excels at this kind of work. After a bit of distortion this was fed into the external audio path of the Arturia
Moog Modular softsynth where it was treated to the Bode shifter module, which is sort of a more complex
ring modulator. The ring modulator module was also run in parallel and tucked behind the dominant bode
shifter sound. It was also given a touch of phase shift and filtering while it was there before being given some
EQ and compression to tidy up, and a little stereo width courtesy of the Little Microshift. The frequency of the
bode shifter was set by using keyboard follow, and therefore from the MIDI input, which also served to tune
the oscillator used to tune the ring modulator. Phew!

PolyKode
Following the Eventide Omnipressor was the (free) TAL Vocoder plugin which was set to polyphonic mode,
though I only used that to stack octaves of the same note. This was simply treated to compression, EQ and
stereo width modulation (Little Microshift).

RingVoc
The ARP2600v ring mod was used with the external audio input for the main manipulation with some extra
processing afterward by the amazing Sonic Charge Echobode effect. The carrier oscillator for the ARP ring
mod was tuned via MIDI, though this was not a note thing, more a general frequency/voicing setting. Little
Microshift, EQ, compression and a little de-essing was used after the ARP and Echobode.

Speeka
The heart of this sound is the Sonic Chareg Bitspeek plugin, a kind of Speak and Spell emulation, though
with bags of range beyond that sound. The note was set via MIDI, as opposed to tracking the input. This was
preceded by the Omnipressor, and followed by Little Microshift, a slight touch of small room reverb and
finally EQ and compression.

SynVoice
Post-Omnipressor was the Little Alterboy from Soundtoys set to transpose down an octave whilst shifting the
formant the opposite way, which produces a synthetic voice quality that sounds more pitched up than down.
Again this was followed by Little Microshift for width and EQ/compression.