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- Page 1 USER MANUAL _VOCODER V...
- Page 2 Information contained in this manual is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Arturia. The software described in this manual is provided under the terms of a license agreement or non-disclosure agreement. The software license agreement specifies the terms and conditions for its lawful use.
- Page 3 Be sure to register your software as soon as possible! When you purchased Vocoder V you were sent a serial number and an unlock code by e-mail. These are required during the online registration process.
- Page 4 Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of Arturia's Vocoder V! We’d like to thank you for purchasing Vocoder V. It expands on the vocoder tradition by bringing it into the virtual world, but Vocoder V also provides capabilities, flexibility, and sounds no hardware vocoder can approach.
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Page 5: Table Of Contents
2.2.2. Activating Vocoder V......................................... 6 2.3. Initial Setup ....................................7 2.3.1. Stand-Alone Settings........................................7 2.4. Using Vocoder V as a Plug-In ............................9 2.4.1. Supported DAWs ........................................... 9 2.4.2. Plug-In Behavior ........................................10 Overview................................... 11 3.1. The Advanced Panel................................11 3.1.1. - Page 6 8.4.2. Applying Control Sources to Destinations..............................57 8.4.3. Assigning Modulation Amount..................................58 The Effects ..................................59 9.1. About the Vocoder V Effects............................59 9.2. The Effects Panel ................................59 9.3. Parallel and Serial Effects Routing ........................60 9.4. Common Slot Controls..............................61 9.5.
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Page 7: Welcome To Vocoder V
When Arturia started designing Vocoder V, the object was not simply to produce “another vocoder,” but to add a level of innovation, flexibility, and sound quality that took advantage of Arturia’s decades of experience with synthesis, modulation, and effects. -
Page 8: How Vocoders Work
The noise can reproduce fricatives (consonants that result from friction in the mouth, like “s” or “f”). Vocoder V includes a way to adjust the amount of noise injected in response to fricatives, which makes vocal effects much clearer. -
Page 9: Activation First Start
2. ACTIVATION FIRST START 2.1. System Requirements Vocoder V works with computers that meet these minimum specifications. • Operating System: Windows 8.1 or later (64-bit), macOS 10.13 or later • 4 GB RAM • 2.5 GHz CPU • 2 GB free hard disk space •... -
Page 10: Stand-Alone And Plug-In Modes
As a plug-in, Vocoder V is compatible within most 64-bit DAWs as an Audio Unit, AAX, VST 2.4, or VST3 instrument. With DAWs that cannot route audio to virtual instrument plug-ins, Vocoder V’s Sampler Player is available, but not its real-time live input feature (see section... -
Page 11: Initial Setup
2.3.1. Stand-Alone Settings In stand-alone mode, you need to specify how Vocoder V interacts with your computer’s audio and MIDI input and outputs. The audio input sends an audio signal to serve as the vocoder’s modulator, while the output receives Vocoder V’s audio output. - Page 12 I/O. Check the interfaces you want to aggregate, and check “resample” for the secondary interface or interfaces. Now all input and output options will be available to Vocoder V. For more information, see the in-app tutorials.
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Page 13: Using Vocoder V As A Plug-In
In Vocoder V’s Voice Input section, click the Help button for instructions on how to insert Vocoder V in your specific DAW. You can also review the ways of inserting Vocoder V for different DAWs in the Tutorial, “Learning the Instrument.” Access tutorials by clicking on the Gear icon in the interface’s upper right. -
Page 14: Plug-In Behavior
2.4.2. Plug-In Behavior When used as a plug-in with a host DAW, Vocoder V’s interface and settings work the same way as stand-alone mode, with the following differences. • Audio and MIDI interface settings aren’t needed. Vocoder V adopts whatever settings the host uses. -
Page 15: Overview
Advanced panel, and the Gear icon opens the flyout. 3.1. The Advanced Panel Although it’s easy to use Vocoder V by just calling up presets, there are many ways to customize its operation to create your own signature sound. The Advanced Panel has three sections: Voice, Modulations, and Effects. -
Page 16: Sample Player
MIDI control signals to trigger samples, or step through them sequentially with newly played notes. Samples can also be time-stretched to fit particular rhythmic values, and looped. Note that the Sample Player and Voice Input can’t be used simultaneously. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Overview... -
Page 17: Mods
The 11 effects have a level of quality that’s equal to or better than what’s in most DAWs, so a single Vocoder V patch will likely contain all the processing you’ll need. Three effects can be active simultaneously, with a series or parallel connection. -
Page 18: Carrier Synthesizer
3.2. Carrier Synthesizer The Voice Input or Sampler Player interacts with Vocoder V’s Carrier Synthesizer to create the vocoder effect. This two-oscillator synthesizer includes four waveforms, FM synthesis, an ensemble effect, hard sync, and glide (monophonic and polyphonic). To simplify vocoding, a Chord feature allows playing any of several chords, or a custom chord, from a single note. -
Page 19: The User Interface
4. THE USER INTERFACE In this chapter we’ll start with an overview of the Vocoder V user interface. This will give you an idea of how the instrument is organized and where to find things. The point here is to establish how the interface is composed at a high level. -
Page 20: The Upper Toolbar
MIDI functions including global MIDI channel and mapping features. 4.2.1. The menu Clicking the Vocoder V box at the top-left corner opens a drop-down menu and lets you access ten important features. New Preset: This option creates a new preset with default settings on all •... - Page 21 ♪: While working with Vocoder V, you can also use the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl & +/- (or Cmd & +/-) to quickly adjust the window size. Audio Settings: (only available in Standalone mode) Here you manage the way •...
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Page 22: Browsing Presets
!: The Audio Settings menu is only available in when using Vocoder V in Standalone mode. When using it as a plugin, the host software handles all of the parameters in this menu including audio and MIDI routing, buffer size settings, and more. -
Page 23: Side Panel
Side Panel. The Side Panel gives access to various MIDI related options. In here you can set the global MIDI channel, set up MIDI controller mapping to virtually any parameter of the Vocoder V, select either a generic MIDI keyboard controller OR one of Arturia's own MIDI controllers, set up the Macros and access the tutorials. -
Page 24: Midi Controller Configuration
♪: By default, Vocoder V will receive MIDI data on all 16 MIDI channels (All setting). You can change this by selecting a specific channel here. You will need to do this if, for example, you want to use an external controller with multiple instances of Vocoder V. -
Page 25: Assigning / Un-Assigning Controls
0 to 100%). The minimum and maximum value sliders let you restrict the range something other than 0%-100%. This is very useful for making sure you cannot accidentally make the sound too quiet or too loud when performing. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - The User Interface... -
Page 26: Relative Control Option
A "relative" change instructs the receiving device to increase or decrease its current value. The receiving device (Vocoder V in this case) interprets this command as "increase/decrease your current value." This type of control is often implemented on "endless" or "360 degree"... -
Page 27: Unassigning Or "Un-Learning" A Midi Mapping
When you tweak one of the macro controls in the lower toolbar you will see all the link controls move. Very handy indeed! Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - The User Interface... -
Page 28: The Preset Browser In Detail
This option allows you to browse presets using the Browse knobs on Arturia MIDI Controllers. This makes it incredibly efficient to quickly audition sounds without having to reach for the mouse. To use this feature, select your Arturia controller from the menu and its Browse knob will be automatically mapped to preset browsing. -
Page 29: Playlists
You will see a message which tells you that the new preset will be duplicated. Vocoder V will create a copy of the preset so that you can modify settings in the playlist presets without impacting the original preset it is based on, and vice versa. -
Page 30: Voice Page
This is what creates “talking instrument” and other effects. The Voice page has two sections: • The Voice Input feeds audio signals into Vocoder V in real time, such as audio from a microphone or drum machine. -
Page 31: Help
5.2.2. Gain and Threshold Gain (-36 dB to +24 dB). Set this for the optimum input level to Vocoder V. Ideally, peaks will reach, but not exceed, -18 dB. There is another level control in the vocoder section to set the modulation level;... -
Page 32: Pitch Tracking
5.2.3. Pitch Tracking Vocoder V can detect the pitch of a monophonic input signal, and use that to trigger the same pitch in the synthesizer keyboard. This allows playing the keyboard by singing, playing single-note lines on guitar, using wind instruments, and so on—exactly as if you had hit a key. -
Page 33: Sample Player
5.3. Sample Player The Sample Player feature is unique to Vocoder V. It stores up to 12 mono or stereo audio files of essentially unlimited length, which play back monaurally. Thus, these samples can provide audio to the vocoder section without needing to route a microphone or other sound source to the vocoder. - Page 34 Load a Sample from the Factory Library Click on the Factory tab, as shown above, to show the samples that ship with Vocoder V. Clicking on a folder (in this case, Drones & Ambiences) shows the available samples in that folder.
- Page 35 To create a new folder category in the User library, click on + Add Folder. This opens your operating system’s standard file browser. Navigate to the desired folder, select it, and click on OK. Note that only samples within that folder will be recognized. Vocoder V ignores nested folders (folders within folders).
- Page 36 User. For Mac, the path is /Library/Arturia/Samples/Vocoder V/. This is not part of the Vocoder V program, so if a problem happens like a hard drive crash and you need to re-install Vocoder V, these files will not re-appear when you re-install Vocoder V. Back these up separately to make sure you can access them in the future.
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Page 37: Playback Mode
As long as the sample remains triggered (i.e., you haven’t triggered a new sample with the lowest octave keys), if you play new notes before the sample has stopped playing, playback restarts at the beginning of the sample. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Voice page... - Page 38 Play Direction options through the chain are forward, backward, forward/backward, and random. Clicking the Reset button to the left of the Play Direction options returns playback to the chain’s beginning. ♪: A MIDI Start message also performs a reset. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Voice page...
- Page 39 To unlock, click on the Locked button again. ♪: Deleting a sample automatically removes the cell’s locked status. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Voice page...
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Page 40: Editing Samples
To swap samples, drag one cell on top of another cell (e.g., if you drag cell 8 on top of cell 2, cell 2 will now contain the sample that was in cell 8, and cell 8 will contain the sample that was in cell 2). Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Voice page... -
Page 41: Time-Stretch A Sample
Multi or Bars. The sample syncs to the host tempo when Vocoder V is a plug-in, or to the internal tempo in stand-alone mode (under Audio Midi Settings). -
Page 42: Change Sample Gain (Level)
Time Ruler so that the cursor turns into a hand. • Click and drag down to zoom in. • Click and drag up to zoom out. • Click and drag sideways to move the timeline right or left. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Voice page... -
Page 43: Looping Within The Sample
This allows defining a loop length, and then moving the loop with the Loop Start handle, to find the loop’s optimum placement. To turn off looping, click again on the looping symbol attached to the end point handle. The loop handles disappear. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Voice page... -
Page 44: Legato Mode
The EQ is before the compressor, so if you add extreme EQ settings, the compressor can keep them under control. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Voice page... -
Page 45: The Virtual Keyboard
6. CARRIER SYNTHESIZER The synthesizer that generates sound for the Carrier takes full advantage of Arturia’s experience in creating award-winning virtual instruments. Vocoder V’s synthesizer generates sounds that are optimized for being controlled by the Vocoder’s modulator. 6.1. The Virtual Keyboard The keyboard does more than just play notes, because it can also trigger samples. -
Page 46: Wheel Controllers
MIDI data. The colored dots above the keys correspond to the sample colors in the Sample Player. With Voice Input, or the sample player in Cycle mode, these keys play back pitches, like the other keyboard keys. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Carrier Synthesizer... -
Page 47: Vcos
• White noise Changes the sound’s color (tonality). • Triangle and Sawtooth Applies Arturia’s wavefolding process, which folds the • peaks of the waveform downward to change the sound’s high-frequency content. When fully counter-clockwise, each waveform has its most traditional shape and sound. -
Page 48: Synthesizer Global Controls
♪: Click on a key in a factory chord type to switch instantly to Custom. Then you can make whatever changes you want to the factory chord type, and it will become a new custom chord type. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Carrier Synthesizer... - Page 49 400 Hz, or as high as 480 Hz. Use this to accommodate out-of-tune instruments, or with certain types of music that are not based on the A = 440 Hz pitch standard. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Carrier Synthesizer...
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Page 50: Vocoder Section
♪: To play the Vocoder V carrier like a standard synthesizer, click its Preview button. It won’t be affected by the Effects settings, but the Envelope Follower, LFO, and assigned controls in the Advanced panel’s Mods section will still influence the sound. -
Page 51: Envelope And Character Controls
(brighter sound). Width Changes the bandwidth of the 16 vocoder filters. Turn counter-clockwise for a thinner, more synthetic sound, or clockwise for a broader, more natural sound. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Vocoder Section... -
Page 52: Band Level Controls And Meters
Click on a slider and move it. • Click on a slider, then drag over the other sliders to “draw” a curve. Each band also has an audio meter that shows the band’s pre-fader output level. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Vocoder Section... -
Page 53: High Frequency And Balance
(Hiss setting) with the “buzz” sound generated when the vocoder reacts to high-frequency sounds (Buzz setting). Middle settings tend to sound more natural. Fast/Slow When fast, high frequencies appear as more of a percussive burst. Slower speeds create a less percussive effect. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Vocoder Section... -
Page 54: Master Output Section
Vocoder V. Mix Choose the ratio of dry sound to vocoded sound. To add some of the input in with the vocoded sound, turn the Mix control more to dry. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Vocoder Section... -
Page 55: Patch Bay
The Patch Bay switch can bypass the current patch bay set up without having to remove the patch cables. Switch Off to bypass, or On to use the current patch bay setup. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Vocoder Section... -
Page 56: Patch Bay Presets
Sample / Hold Switch On to hold the levels of the modulator control outputs that feed the Carrier bands. Any Carrier keys you play will all be affected the same way by the held modulator control outputs. Switch off Sample / Hold to return to normal operation. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Vocoder Section... -
Page 57: Modulations Section
Vocoder V has two main modulation sources (Envelope Follower and LFO), five auxiliary modulation sources (you can also select None as a modulation source), and 30 available destinations. -
Page 58: Envelope Follower
The Envelope Follower output can route to two independent destinations. See section 8.4.2 for information on selecting destinations and assigning modulation sources to them. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Modulations Section... -
Page 59: Lfo (Low-Frequency Oscillator)
(e.g., the default level is set low, so you don’t want additional modulation to lower it, only raise it). The output can route to two destinations. See section 8.4.2 for information on selecting destinations and assigning modulation sources to them. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Modulations Section... -
Page 60: Assign Section
Polyphonic aftertouch generates a separate control signal for each key to which pressure is being applied, but is not available as a modulation source when Vocoder V is used as a plug-in. -
Page 61: Applying Control Sources To Destinations
The screen shot shows the available Destinations. For example, if you want Aftertouch to control the Osc 2 Level in the Assign section, assign Aftertouch as the Source, and Osc 2 Level as the destination. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Modulations Section... -
Page 62: Assigning Modulation Amount
Destination parameter value). Amounts between these extremes trim the modulation Source’s effect. For example, if you want the Mod Wheel to turn up a parameter value to only half of the available maximum, then set the Amount to 0.500. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - Modulations Section... -
Page 63: The Effects
Vocoder V preset can include effects that would normally require inserting other plug-ins. This makes Vocoder V a self-contained plug-in that will likely include most, if not all, of the effects you would want to use. The roster of effects includes: Reverb Emulates the effect of playing in an acoustic space, from a small room to •... -
Page 64: Parallel And Serial Effects Routing
The lower image shows the series connection routing. Vocoder V feeds the input of the first slot. The first slot’s output feeds the second slot’s input, the second slot’s output feeds the third slot’s input, and the third slot’s output provides Vocoder V’s final output. -
Page 65: Common Slot Controls
Tip: All effect parameters are MIDI-assignable, so the MIDI “learn” function (see section 10 on MIDI Control) can map effect parameters to the hardware controls on an external USB MIDI controller. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - The Effects... -
Page 66: Each Effect In Depth
Size Controls the size of the reverberant space. Low settings sound like smaller • rooms, while higher settings sound like massive halls and chambers. Use this knob in conjunction with the Predelay and Decay controls to sculpt a variety of different sonic spaces. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - The Effects... - Page 67 Adding reverb to low frequencies can make the overall sound muddy, bass-heavy, and indistinct. Trimming the low frequencies often gives a clearer, more defined reverb effect. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - The Effects...
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Page 68: Delay
Sync Locks the delay to the current song tempo in a DAW, or in stand-alone • mode, the Vocoder V’s internal tempo (as set in Audio Midi Settings). With Sync enabled, a tooltip appears when adjusting the Delay Time that shows the delay as a rhythmic value. - Page 69 HP Freq This sets the cutoff of a high pass filter that processes the input signal • prior to passing through the Delay. Excessive low frequencies can make the overall sound muddy, bass-heavy, and indistinct. Trimming the low frequencies can give a more defined delay sound. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - The Effects...
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Page 70: Chorus
LFO. Mixing the dry and delayed signal (typically 50% dry and 50% delayed) produces interactions between the two signals that create the actual chorus effect. The Vocoder V chorus can create more than one copy of the input signal, for an even richer effect. -
Page 71: Flanger
LP Freq Sets the flanger’s lowpass cutoff frequency. Flanging isn’t applied to • frequencies above the cutoff. HP Freq Sets the flanger’s highpass cutoff frequency. Flanging isn’t applied to • frequencies below the cutoff. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - The Effects... -
Page 72: Phaser
Sync Locks the delay to the current song tempo in a DAW, or in stand-alone • mode, the Vocoder V’s internal tempo (as set in Audio Midi Settings). With Sync enabled, a tooltip appears when adjusting the Delay Time that shows the delay as a rhythmic value. -
Page 73: Overdrive
Tone Turning this clockwise raises the frequency of a high-frequency shelving • filter to brighten the sound and adds a harsher edge. Level Sets the Overdrive’s output level to compensate for any increase in output • level caused by increasing Drive. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - The Effects... -
Page 74: Compressor
This allows momentary peaks to pass through with little or no compression, which can preserve natural “attack” transients. Note that if you use compression with Vocoder V, adding some attack time will help preserve consonants at the beginnings of words, and create a more intelligible effect. - Page 75 Output Gain Controls the compressor’s final output level. If you do not select the • Makeup option, you will probably need to adjust this manually to compensate for the lower output level caused by compression. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - The Effects...
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Page 76: Bitcrusher
9.5.8. BitCrusher Arturia instruments make maximum use of digital technology to generate high-fidelity sounds. But sometimes you want to be nasty, and this technology can also be warped to create gritty, lo-fi, industrial sounds. The Bitcrusher adds digital distortion by intentionally reducing the bit depth and sampling rate of incoming signals. -
Page 77: Multi Filter
BP filters, which creates a peak at that frequency. Higher resonance settings create a sharper peak. For the Comb FB filter, Resonance increases the peak of the combs, while for the Comb FF filter, Resonance increases the depth of the comb’s notches. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - The Effects... -
Page 78: Param Eq
(boost) or down (cut). Q With the parametric stage, this determines the range over which a boost or cut • occurs, from narrow to broad. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - The Effects... - Page 79 High Shelf stage, Q adds a boost before the cutoff frequency and a cut afterward. In the image above, Q is turned up for both the Low Shelf (left) and High Shelf (right) filters, which are cutting and boosting respectively. Arturia - User Manual Vocoder V - The Effects...
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Page 80: Stereo Pan
DAW, or in stand-alone mode, the Vocoder V’s internal tempo (as set in Audio Midi Settings). Amount Turning this up widens the sweep, so that at the maximum setting, the •... -
Page 81: Software Licence Agreement
The License is not a sale of the original SOFTWARE. 2. Grant of License Arturia grants you a non-exclusive license for the use of the software according to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. You may not lease, loan or sub- license the software. - Page 82 (a) return of the purchase price or (b) replacement of the disk that does not meet the Limited Warranty and which is returned to Arturia with a copy of your receipt. This limited Warranty is void if failure of the software has resulted from accident, abuse, modification, or misapplication.
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