1. Auto-Tune Abuse in Pop Music Antares Auto-Tune is a proprietary audio processor that corrects pitch in vocal or instrumental tracks. The article above discusses its recent rampant overuse. Hmm, I always thought Avril Lavigne sounded funny on 'Complicated'.
2. In the recent TV ad campaign for Marks & Spencer, they use the Electric Light Orchestra track 'Mr Blue Sky'. There's a distinctive robotic vocal sound in it that I am curious about. How was it made? I was thinking at first that it was something like Auto-Tune (as on the annoying Cher single!) but.
3. Blue Sky is a song by the rock group Electric Light Orchestra. The song forms the fourth and last track on the 'Concerto for a Rainy Day' suite on side three of the original two-LP set.
4. Jul 21, 2008  Electric Light Orchestra's Mr. Blue Sky from Out of the Blue,1977. Note: I do not own ELO.
5. My others are 'Livin' Thing' which is somehow happy, intense, and a little sad all at once, and 'Mr. Blue Sky' for its brilliance and ability to fill me with optimism. I always wish I know whether or not there is more of a story behind the meaning of songs like this, but even if.

Blue Sky Lyrics: 'Morning! Today's forecast calls for blue skies.' / The sun is shining in the sky / There ain't a cloud in sight / It's stopped raining, everybody's in the play / And don't you.

Modern software vocoders like Native Instruments' Vokator are far more sophisticated than their hardware forebears.

In the recent TV ad campaign for Marks & Spencer, they use the Electric Light Orchestra track 'Mr Blue Sky'. There's a distinctive robotic vocal sound in it that I am curious about. How was it made? I was thinking at first that it was something like Auto-Tune (as on the annoying Cher single!) but the ELO record was made years before that. Or is it a remix? (I'm not old enough to remember the original!)

Danny Finn

SOS contributor Steve Howell replies: The effect is created using a device known as a vocoder, which is short for voice encoder, though it was also briefly known as a 'voder'. Like so many things in this business, the vocoder dates back many decades and, again like so many things in this business, is derived from telephonic communications technology!

It was originally developed by Homer Dudley of Bell Labs in the '40s as a means to compress audio for transmission down copper telephone lines. Later, one Werner Meyer-Eppler of Bonn University saw the potential for the vocoder in the then-emerging genre of electronic music.

Basically, a vocoder has two inputs: a modulator and a carrier. The modulator is usually fed by a microphone, typically with sung or spoken words, and the carrier will take a bright, sustained synth sound. Chords are played into the carrier input and words are spoken (or sung) into the modulator. The spoken/sung words are electronically imposed on the carrier signal, to create the effect of the synth speaking or singing. So how does this magic work?

The carrier signal is split into different frequencies, using very tight band-pass filters (not unlike those in a graphic equaliser), and each of these has a voltage-controlled amplifier or, more recently, a digitally controlled amp. The modulator input is similarly split into different frequencies and on the output of each of the modulators' band-pass filters is an envelope follower that opens and closes the corresponding amplifier on the carrier input (see diagram). Thus, if you were to say 'ooaaah' into the modulator, the lower filters on the modulator would activate and open the lower filters on the carrier's signal; as the modulating signal moved into 'aaaah', the modulator's higher filters would be activated, in turn opening the carrier's upper filters and creating the illusion of vocals.

The number of filter bands the vocoder has is crucial. In the early days of analogue vocoders, for technical reasons (and reasons of cost) they typically only had around 10 bands, making speech somewhat unintelligible. More recent developments using modern DSP allows vocoder designers to include almost any number of filters, meaning that intelligibility is greatly improved, although they still sound like vocoders. Of course, these filters only really deal with the vowel components of a sound; to cater for sibilants and fricatives, such as 's', 'b' and 'p', noise generators are sometimes used, which are triggered when the modulator detects them. While they help, they are still not convincing.

Vocoders were grossly over-used to the point of cliché in the '70s ('Mr Blue Sky' being a prime example!) and they subsequently fell from grace. However, they can be responsible for some stunning sounds, and one only has to listen to Herbie Hancock's use of his Sennheiser vocoder in his brief foray into dance/disco music in the '70s and '80s to confirm this. autocad lt 2015 download mac Feeding the vocoder with an impeccably phrased Minimoog, Hancock created perfectly realistic and fluid lead vocals but with a curious robotic quality. He multitracked these to create harmonies and backing vocals to stunning effect.

More recently, the vocoder has become much more than just a 'speaking synth' effect, and people routinely now feed drum loops into the modulator to rhythmically chop the carrier signal.

Arma 2 cd key generator. Prominent vocoder manufacturers of old were EMS (whose products are still on sale), Moog (who I believe based their design on the vocoder Wendy Carlos contructed out of discrete modules on her giant Moog modular), Sennheiser, Korg and, of course, Roland, with their famous Vocoder Plus.

More recently, there has been a veritable glut of software vocoders on the market, some free, some shareware and some payware. Notable examples are Akai's DC Vocoder and Native Instruments' Vokator, both of which offer outstanding intelligibility and flexibility.

If you want to do a Daft Punk or Mr Blue Sky then this free vocoder plug-in from TAL is a cool way to start getting some robotic voices into your tracks.

TAL-Vocoder is a vintage vocoder emulation with 11 bands that emulates the sound of vocoders from the early 80’s. It includes analog modeled components in combination with digital algorithms such as the SFFT (Short-Time Fast Fourier Transform). This vocoder does not make a direct convolution of the carrier and modulation signal as other digital vocoders maybe do. It includes an envelope follower for every of the eleven bands. This vocoder is optimized for voice processing and includes some algorithms for consonants to make the voice more intelligible.
The carrier signal is a VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) with a Pulse, Saw, Noise and SubOsc. But it’s also possible to use the left stereo input as carrier. This way every sound source can be used as carrier signal. This plug-in supports every sample rate.

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Features

• 11 band vocoder engine.
• Internal carrier synth (pulse, saw, sub osc, noise, mono, poly, portamento, sync mode, tune).
• Possiblity to route an external carrier signal.
• Harmonic control (adds more harmonics to any carrier signal)
• 'Ess' enhancer for a clean understandable voice, also with a carrier that hasnt much high frequencies.
• Clip LED, glows if the input signal will be clipped.
• Panic button stopps hanging notes within the synth.
• Documentation shows different routing possiblities.
• Low CPU usage.

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Available Versions

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• Windows Plug-In - VST 32bit/64bit installer
• OSX Plug-In - Audio Unit (32bit/64bit), VST (32bit) installer