I just made a vocoder using only ableton components!
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holy shit.. so thats what happens when i watch christmas telly nice one angstromThe sidechain input of compressor has a filter, which is used to asses the incoming vocal, so for example a band pass on the sideband at 1k will only make the compressor compress when a signal is present in the vocal at 1k.
Now, of course the synth is the carrier, so the compressor will turn down the synth when the vocal goes loud (at 1k), which as you say , is the wrong way round. So how do we invert it? Like you guessed, A duplicate rack-chain in parallel, with a Utility set on phase invert. This cancels out similar signals and lets disimilar signals through. When the compressed synth goes quiet it is because A - B = 0 , IE both channels are the same, but if A is quieter due to the sidechain modulation then A- B = 0.14231234 (or whatever) and we hear the difference.
so I can extract positive values from each frequency band by bandpass, sidebands and phase inversion.
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Is service pack 3 available?I read about it but it's not officially released yet is it?Can't find it on the site anyway.Wouldn't mind trying it if it's an improvement over SP2forge wrote:inspired crazy voodoo genius madness
the really stunning thing is it illustrated to me just what a bastard Vista is - I'm getting something like 20-30% lower CPU readings under XP (SP3)
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=musicmachine wrote:Is service pack 3 available?I read about it but it's not officially released yet is it?Can't find it on the site anyway.Wouldn't mind trying it if it's an improvement over SP2forge wrote:inspired crazy voodoo genius madness
the really stunning thing is it illustrated to me just what a bastard Vista is - I'm getting something like 20-30% lower CPU readings under XP (SP3)
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Been having a lot of fun with this thing. Here's a couple tips:
If you assign a global macro to the threshold of each compressor you can use it as a wet/dry to blend in the synth source with the vocal.
Also, I cut the number of bands down to 9 (still covering the same freq range) and copied a second instance of EQ3 to each band. About the same CPU hit but really tracks a faster vocal well for that classic, monotone Cylon sound.
If you assign a global macro to the threshold of each compressor you can use it as a wet/dry to blend in the synth source with the vocal.
Also, I cut the number of bands down to 9 (still covering the same freq range) and copied a second instance of EQ3 to each band. About the same CPU hit but really tracks a faster vocal well for that classic, monotone Cylon sound.