voice changer hardware

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  1. matfra

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    Hi all,

    I've been looking for hardware that can be used a s a voice changer. Specifically, I would like to modify voices in realtime in such a way that the voice does no longer sound like your own voice, but (ideally) still has the same pitch... Anyone knows about something that could be useful for this purpose?
    I have seen people suggest the Roland VT-4, but as far as I can see, any voice change there at least includes a pitch chift as well...

    Thanks!
     
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  3. Baxter

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    i.e., be specific.
     
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    What I think you want can only be done with Antares EVO series of plugins. Things like change gender, throat shape etc. without influencing the pitch. There might be some other plugins which can do the same, but I can't remember which. Regarding hardware, maybe some of the TC-Helicon FX can do it?
     
  5. matfra

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    Thanks for the quick responses!

    @Baxter I'm sorry I can't identify what's on your picture, but I'm not sure I can be much more specific. In principle, how the voice is modified does not really matter to me, as long as the result is no longer recognizable as the same voice (so reverb e.g. won't do), and that the result has still the same pitch as the original voice. Maybe you could give some pointers as to what kind of things might be appropriate, given that you think all of these in your picture would be appropriate?

    @SineWave Thanks, I will check out the Antares EVO series, hadn't heard about it. Regarding TC Helicon, is it the VoiceLive you're referring to? Thanks!
     
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    Yes. Voicelive multi FX, and Voicetone stompboxes. Maybe Voicetone C1 or X1 stompboxes are what you're looking for. C1 has a "gender" knob, but you can't seem to be able to turn off the pitch correction. X1 one is a distortion/amp and phone/megaphone FX. They offer a ton of different FX. One of these should be able to do what you're looking for, I guess.

    Cheers!
     
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    Well, you could use an audio2MIDI converter and "play" any synth (hardware or softsynth) that you want, with your voice. That way you will keep the pitch/melody/etc of what you sing/hum, but the tonality will be totally different (any sound/instrument that you want, as well as any signal chain after it).
    You can then expand on this and use a realtime harmonizer, which you control with another MIDI controller or polyphonic instrument (guitar for example).

    There are maaaany way to transform a voice, hence why I wanted you to be more specific.
     
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    Hi,

    I can recommend the Voicemod desktop software, a free-to-play software that offers many audio change options in real time.

    Regards!
     
  9. matfra

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    Hi thank you for your responses, but the reason I am looking for hardware is that the result should be in realtime, by which I mean with less than 30ms delay. With software solutions such as Voicemod, I believe we're almost always looking at longer delays...

    @Baxter: won't the audio2midi converter discretize the pitch of the voice? Or is this not necessarily the case?
     
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    What do you mean with discretize?
     
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    I mean that if you for example have a steady increase in pitch, it will come out as a series of distinct pitches, instead of an actual “glide”, sort of like a hard autotune
     
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    Audio2MIDI will follow by cent and adjust pitchbend accordingly. Even vibrato.
    But if you use a shitty Audio2MIDI converter it will just play chromatic notes without microtonal modulation.
    Is that a question? Then yes - "i.e" makes perefect sense. ;)
     
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    Ah, yes , if your text is second to your helpful picture, I guess. The helpful picture being your direct answer to the op.
    As you were.
     
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    45ECD2F6-CC61-4011-838B-C0982789B938.jpeg Have you had a look at the Roland vt4 .
     
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  15. recycle

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    What you want to do is change the formant without altering the pitch: there are countless plugins that serve this purpose (Celemony and Antares above all).
    I'm not very up to date on gear for this purpose, but I'm sure it does exist among the millions of fx pedals out there. Try google for "harmonizer pedals" (Eventide gear is famous for achieving this sound)


    Update:
    I just noticed that the thread is from 2 years ago, probably the guy has already solved his problem
     
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    Or possibly learnt to like his own voice. I still haven't got over the hate of mine. I sound like a punctured bagpipe pitched down an octave.
     
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    TC Helicon - Voice Pocesssor
    https://www.tc-helicon.com/catalog....-VOICEPROCESSORS&itemsPerPage=15&pageNumber=1
    https://www.thomann.de/de/tc-helicon_voice_prozessoren.html
    https://www.thomann.de/gb/search_GK...LCJjdXJyZW5jeSI6NCwibGFuZ3VhZ2UiOjJ9&reload=1
     
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  18. I scored you a "love it" but it was a close call with a "funny" I absolutely relate to what you say. I have so many voice processors, both hardware and software, including a TC Helicon Voicelive Rack and I think I sound like a wounded bison. I've given up and just take it as it is now. Which is shite. Bison shite.
     
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