Minimal Audio is the Minnesota-based software program developer behind well-liked plugins like Current and Rift, instruments that stability user-friendly playability with inventive firepower and sonic experimentation.
After dropping a free formant-shifter only a few weeks in the past, the corporate has introduced the discharge of a brand new vocal resynthesis plugin: Evoke. Billed as a “hypermodern vocal processor”, Evoke is designed to warp, manipulate and harmonize vocals in quite a lot of methods, delivering creatively inspiring vocal results that “unlock new sonic potentialities” for vocal manufacturing.
First issues first: Evoke is not a vocoder, though it’d sound like one. Like a vocoder, Evoke synthesizes sounds primarily based on an enter sign, but it surely takes a distinct method primarily based on spectral evaluation and vocal modelling, putting off the provider/modulator set-up you’d discover in a conventional vocoder. This implies that no guide routing is required: simply load up the plugin in your vocal monitor and also you’re able to go.
Evoke’s workflow begins at its backside Keyboard Panel, the place the person can modify scale and pitch vary to information the plugin’s vocal tuning engine, or dial in multi-voice harmonies of as much as 4 elements. (Though Evoke is designed for inventive vocal manipulation, it can be used as standard pitch correction device.)
In its default mode, Evoke mechanically detects the pitch of an incoming sign and applies retuning harmonization, however the person can also be capable of route exterior MIDI into Evoke to find out the pitch of its resynthesis engine, and even bypass its sound technology altogether to use its vocal modelling to audio routed in by way of sidechain.
Evoke’s vocal resynthesis engine is provided with 15 Character Modes that form the timbre of its resynthesized output. These cowl every thing from recognizable vocoder-like sounds to robotic sci-fi voices, glitchy unstable results and metallic, dissonant textures. There are additionally 350 curated presets onboard.
The plugin options eight results that may be mixed into chains of as much as 12 processors within the Effects Rack. These embrace refrain, multiband compression, delay, distortion, filter, reverb and EQ, together with frequency shifting and ring modulation.
Like Minimal Audio’s different plugins, Evoke advantages from a flexible modulation system that may introduce motion and unpredictability to presets. Any parameter may be modulated by way of Evoke’s LFOs, envelope followers and sequencers, all routed by way of the modulation matrix.
Priced at an introductory low cost of $79, Minimal Audio’s Evoke is offered now for macOS and Windows in AAX/AU/VST/VST3 codecs.
Find out extra on Minimal Audio’s web site.
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