Vocoder-Furries in a Blender

[Mad-Muppet]

Hey peeps! I've been looking into using a vocoder for some upcoming songs, and I've played around with the Fruity Vocoder, but it doesn't really do it for me, I dunno but maybe I don't have the right kind of carrier....

Anyways, the thing I wanted to ask is - I heard a remix of the youtube film "Full Life Consequences" by "Furries in a Blender", and in that song is a really, really sweet vocoder-type thingy that I would love to know how to replicate! Anyone who has an idea how to accomplish this?
LINK TO THE SONG

[mikkim]

At 4/6/09 07:43 AM, Mad-Muppet wrote: Hey peeps! I've been looking into using a vocoder for some upcoming songs, and I've played around with the Fruity Vocoder, but it doesn't really do it for me, I dunno but maybe I don't have the right kind of carrier....

Anyways, the thing I wanted to ask is - I heard a remix of the youtube film "Full Life Consequences" by "Furries in a Blender", and in that song is a really, really sweet vocoder-type thingy that I would love to know how to replicate! Anyone who has an idea how to accomplish this?
LINK TO THE SONG

srsly, the fruity vocoder is pretty powerful,if you don't have the right carrier, make a good carrier. the fruity vocoder is a great vocoder.

[Mad-Muppet]

At 4/6/09 01:56 PM, mikkim wrote:

At 4/6/09 07:43 AM, Mad-Muppet wrote: Hey peeps! I've been looking into using a vocoder for some upcoming songs, and I've played around with the Fruity Vocoder, but it doesn't really do it for me, I dunno but maybe I don't have the right kind of carrier....

Anyways, the thing I wanted to ask is - I heard a remix of the youtube film "Full Life Consequences" by "Furries in a Blender", and in that song is a really, really sweet vocoder-type thingy that I would love to know how to replicate! Anyone who has an idea how to accomplish this?
LINK TO THE SONG

srsly, the fruity vocoder is pretty powerful,if you don't have the right carrier, make a good carrier. the fruity vocoder is a great vocoder.

Okay, yeah I guess i could create a better carrier somehow, but that's not the important bit. I want to make my vocals sound similar to those that Furries in a Blender use in the "John Freeman" song, which i linked to in my first post. That's what i reallyneed help with, and if I can use the Fruity Vocoder in accomplishing this, that's great! :3

[Kanped]

That actually sounds more like format-based synth vocals played through a sampler to me... but I absolutly could be wrong; its a heavy effect, anyway.

Get one of those type-talk synths, export the resulting files, load it into a sampler and map it to a keyboard/the piano roll.

[Mad-Muppet]

At 4/7/09 11:57 AM, Kanped wrote: That actually sounds more like format-based synth vocals played through a sampler to me... but I absolutly could be wrong; its a heavy effect, anyway.

Get one of those type-talk synths, export the resulting files, load it into a sampler and map it to a keyboard/the piano roll.

A type-talk synth? Like the Text-To-Speech "Microsoft Sam" kind of deal? 'Cause that's not really what I'm looking for. The ones from the song I linked to are regular vocals from the beginning, and Furries in a Blender has somehow managed to create this awesome vocoder-sounding out of them, If you want to hear the original, it's based on this youtube vid - Full Life Consequences

[LightKeeper]

I think Kanped actually has it right. That just sounded like MS Sam talking through a vocoder to me, which can be achieved through the fruity vocoder. There's actually a tutorial within FL that teaches you how to use its vocoder properly, and if you listen to what they come out with it sounds fairly similar to what you are looking for.

[Mad-Muppet]

At 4/7/09 02:21 PM, LightKeeper wrote: I think Kanped actually has it right. That just sounded like MS Sam talking through a vocoder to me, which can be achieved through the fruity vocoder. There's actually a tutorial within FL that teaches you how to use its vocoder properly, and if you listen to what they come out with it sounds fairly similar to what you are looking for.

Okay, I'll give that a try then. Thanks for all the help, I really appreciate it!

[Rig]

Sounds more like a tuning program, like Melodyne.

[Kanped]

I thought it might be an auto-tune thing but it just sounds too synthetic (again, I'm not saying that it isn't an autotune for sure). I don't really use auto-tune software (as you can tell from my submissions... must practice harder) but I'm not sure if you can go quite THAT crazy with them. Maybe you can.

[Mad-Muppet]

I managed to contact the guy who made the song (!) and apparently, he used something called "Antares Auto-Tune Evo Pitch Correcting Plug-In", I'm gonna google it and see with I find :D

[BlurrySound]

you said you use the fruity vocoder? well here is a good explanation/tutorial of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91igHV0Cw Jk

[Mad-Muppet]

At 4/7/09 06:38 PM, BlurrySound wrote: you said you use the fruity vocoder? well here is a good explanation/tutorial of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91igHV0Cw Jk

That was a sweet tutorial, thanks alot!

[BlurrySound]

At 4/7/09 07:36 PM, Mad-Muppet wrote:

At 4/7/09 06:38 PM, BlurrySound wrote: you said you use the fruity vocoder? well here is a good explanation/tutorial of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91igHV0Cw Jk

That was a sweet tutorial, thanks alot!

ya, check out his other tuts, they're pretty in depth

[Kanped]

So it IS auto-tune, then; same as Cher on 'Believe', if you're interested. It'd be much easier to get the same results using Melodyne rather than Antares. There's probably a freee demo you could use...

http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id =demo_plugin

[Darren-M]

this is what i heard when i listened.

i am hearing a sample that has been auto-tuned and then ran through a vocoder and the carrier for vocals is most likely a saw or square since those are usually best for vocoding. then they probably took that .wav file and mastered it, then sliced up the wave. then im betting loaded it into a sampler and used pitch bends on it automated or by controller.

thats what i would have done. the synth they used sounds mid heavy. so ....use your best judgment but try to me basic. no crazy ass carriers unless they are saw based.

im not to sure if it was autotuned or not if it was it would have had to have been after production and vocoding because the autotune wouldnt really show up if it was a mono tone after going through the vocoder.

[Mad-Muppet]

Okay, thanks. So my best bet is to record my voice into a .wav first, and import it into a FL project for auto-tuning, and vocoding it in another project so to speak? Also, melodyne seems like a good program. I'll have to try that.