Chop Up Your Samples. Beat Chopper is a free VST plugin that allows you to load an audio sample, split it, and trigger it from various positions by MIDI. You can split the sample evenly to 4, 8, 16 or 32 parts or use automatic split point detection that is based on volume. The user interface displays the waveform, chop points, and current playing position.
Free Female Vocals – 1,338 Free female vocal samples. Aug 25, 2018 Vocal Chop Melody like Martin Garrix in Logic Pro X - Duration. Hooked on Arcade VST - Best Vocal Loops & Samples - Duration. Vox Chops 2 comes with over 130 original custom-made vocal chops and stuttering vocal fx created to fit just about any genre. All samples are BPM and key labeled making it much easier for the producer to use. All vocals have added fx and mastering giving you ready-to-go vocal samples for all your productions. If you want to add those catchy.
Voice synthesis is in a way the ultimate challenge when it comes to fooling the human ear – we humans are very good at noticing when something in another person’s voice is off, for example when they’re not as honest or confident as they’d like us to think. This carries over to noticing anything wrong or unnatural in synthesized voices as well.
In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve been beta-testing the Alter/Ego vocal synthesizer before the release and I’ve also released some sample libraries for Plogue’s Sforzando sampler.
Technology
Alter/Ego is based on Plogue’s Chipspeech platform, which recreates early attempts at synthesizing voices using vintage hardware up to 1984. This is quite a different starting point than other voice synthesizers, such as Vocaloid or UTAU, or vocal sample libraries with wordbuilders like Realivox Blue or the Virharmonic choirs. There are more than two dozen controllable parameters controlling how the voice recordings are transformed into audio output, all linked to MIDI CC. Some are pretty obvious, like helium. Others, like fem factor, wave speed or impulses take some trial and error to get a feel for what they really do to the sound. Vibrato alone gets nine parameters. English and Japanese are the supported languages.
Daisy is based on recordings of the voice of one person (Crusher-P, who also produces music using various vocal sythesizers), but is capable of both female and male voices as well as polyphonic choirs, whispering and downright out-there weirdness. As a way of explaining how one voice can produce all those different sounds, Plogue have cleverly made her a time-traveling robot. More than a voice, Daisy is also a character – from what I see on her Twitter account she currently seems to be romantically involved with Dandy 704, the Chipspeech voice based on the technology IBM used to synthesize the song “Daisy Bell” all the way back in 1961.
Sound
Daisy seems at her best with higher female vocals – she sounds most convincing and powerful there. Male vocals sound more synthetic and more subdued. Cartoonish voices with the helium turned up also sound good, in an obviously unnatural way.
Daisy is a robot but she can sound quite human, especially when singing longer syllables. It’s quite an eerie feeling when after a few robotic words a longer note shows up, vibrato kicks in, and Daisy suddenly sounds very human for a second or two, before suddenly turning robotic again. More whispery sounds also sound more human. Automating the vibrato (or controlling it via mod wheel) and expression can sound quite expressive and emotional. Other parameters can also add emotion in more subtle ways, for example changing the impulse width to make the sound slightly less smooth and more gritty.
One sound I haven’t been able to get is a very aggressive or dirty vocal – Daisy’s always too clean and nice to ever sound much like Tom Waits or even Katy Perry. Extreme metal vocals are not really possible, either. Lower notes can sound a bit growly, though, so maybe distortion or other external effects can bring that out.
Mixing these vocals isn’t very difficult – you can put the same effects you normally would put on a human voice, including harmonic exciters and sweeping resonant filters. Just skip noise reduction and pitch correction. When using multiple instances for backing vocals, though, they will need to be treated differently to help separate them, because they’re all based on the same set of recordings so they’ll be much more in sync with each other than multiple human vocalists ever would – though if you want you can have one polyphonic robot singer producing both male and female voices at the same time.
But you’d rather hear Daisy instead of just reading about how she sounds, right? So, here is a demo produced by PianoBench.
At this point nothing is known about future Alter/Ego voices, but Daisy has been described as a bridge between the vintage technology of Chipspeech and the future.
Workflow
Singing something is quite easy – simply load the plugin into your DAW, load a voice preset, type some lyrics (or even load some preset lyrics), and give it some MIDI notes. Inputting an entire song doesn’t take very long, either. My first attempt at punching some sheet music into piano roll and typing in lyrics sounded recognizable, but very robotic, and the timing of some of the syllables wasn’t quite right. So, you have to learn some tricks, which users of other vocal synthesizers will probably also recognize – moving notes for syllables which start with certain consonants forward a bit, so the first vowel of the syllable sounds on the beat, leaving short rests between notes to give the previous syllable some time to decay, and replacing lyrics with phonetic information to get the transitions between words to sound natural. This seems to be true of both English and Japanese – I got a Japanese-speaker to test this for about an hour, and she mentioned that to get things pronounced correctly she’d replace some of the written syllables with different ones. You can get really deep into this, and it’s a skill set of its own, but at least maximizing intelligibility doesn’t seem to involve constant manipulation of parameters like syllable attack time or phoneme speed to get them just right for every individual syllable. Playing notes with a MIDI keyboard seems to work slightly better than punching them into piano roll, but the notes still need tweaking afterwards.
So, trying to sound as human as possible takes a significant amount of work and skill. Even if you’re trying to sound robotic, tweaks of timing will make things sound considerably more musical and intelligible. Another challenge is keeping the lyrics in sync with the music when skipping to a different part of the track. You have to make sure that the lyrics are going to be in the correct place, as they are not permanently linked to the notes. This is probably the most awkward aspect of the plugin. Sure, you get used to keeping things in sync, but not having to do it would be nice. You can’t expect a vocal synthesizer to be as convenient to use as a virtual analog synth or drum machine, though.
Uses
Conclusion
Alter/Ego is a very deep, powerful and capable tool, and not just by the standards of free products. There’s a learning curve involved in getting the best out of it, but just getting it to sing some words is very easy. If you are interested in vocal synthesis or just weird sounds, there’s no reason to not grab it now. Even if you’re not into that stuff, this is a very fun plugin to play with. Any human singers you work with might even get jealous.
More info:Alter/Ego(official website)
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I guess you would have to agree with me that the best way to polish your vocal recording or a vocal sample is to sprinkle some effects, just like the way you would sprinkle a reasonable amount of ingredients on your food. If done right, it sounds delicious right, yum yum 😉
Vocal effects are no exception to the ingredient perspective, you need to add a reasonable amount of effects to make them sound lively, and enjoyable to the listeners.
Don’t get me wrong, I ain’t saying you should stack effects upon effects on your vocal samples, too much of everything is bad. That said, let us look at the best free awesome VST effects plugin in the music production scene.
Let’s ride on…
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- 5.) g200kg – KeroVee
- 10.) MGF – TimeWarp
1.) AegeanMusic – PitchProof
If you haven’t heard of PitchProof, then, you are definitely missing out, this is like the secret tool I use on Vocals but it wasn’t even developed for Vocal, it was actually designed to work on monophonic signals such as guitar solos, but I’ll give you a tip on how I have been using it:
You don’t want to apply it in realtime, what you should do instead is to first select the key of the harmony, then you turn the Blend knob all the way to the right; wet e.g:
Export the vocal result, add whatever effects plugins you gat on your toolbox (vocal, flangers, etc) to spice up the pitched vocal, and then stack it on top of the original vocal. Boom, you have something unique!
Note: You don’t have to always push it all through the wet side as this might cause artifacts, just experiment and stick with what works for you.
You can even export more vocal, and maybe this time, you can try by reducing the detune knob, anyways, experiment until you get your preferred test.
That said, let’s look at some of the features of PitchProof:
The Blend control knob would let you adjust the level of pitch shift, while the Pitch drop-down menu lets you select pitches like +7 or -7, or harmonies which are intelligent pitch-shift effects.
Moreover, there are also some options at the bottom of the PitchProof plugin which give you the option to switch between stereo and mono; mono could save your CPU, while the stereo option could cause a resource hog if used on multiple inserts.
Transient Fix can be switch on or off to spice things up a little!
Harmony | Info |
2nd | Dissonant harmonies |
3rd | The Typical Major/minor Chord Harmony |
4th | The same as the +5 semitones setting except a few notes are flat. |
5th | The Same as The +7 Semitones Setting Except the Last Note of The Major Scale Is Flat Making It “diminished”. |
6th | A nice-sounding alternative to typical harmony intervals. |
7th | Dissonant 7th Chord Sounds. |
2.) Auburn Sounds – Graillon
This is an autotune VST plugins designed and developed by Auburnsounds. This plugin is superb in the way it handles pitch correction.
It not only supports pitch correction but supports the generation of throat sounds, making octave sounds, enriching, and enhancing vocal expressiveness.
Also, there is a pitch shift parameter that transposes vocals up and down in octaves and semitones.
Features:
- Pitch Shifter cleanly transposes a voice up and down and has been optimized for voice.
- Pitch Correction module brings an immediate robotic sound, while the Bitcrusher addition softly adds sparkles to the mix.
- Freemium
System Requirements
- Available as VST, VST2, AAX, and Audio Unit plugin for macOS and Windows platform.
Download Graillion Auto-Tune Plugin
3.) JHudStudio – Vocal King
Vocal King helps glue the vocal in a mix, and it comes preloaded cool parameters, that could help in customizing the audio signal of a vocal track.
The Pres Compressor knob helps in bringing out the clarity of a vocal, so, by turning up the gain of the Pres Comp brings out the presence in the vocal along with giving it a smooth compression. On the other hand, the Low cut, Tighten, and the Bass knob compliment the Pres Comp in taking out muddy frequencies without the vocal sounding too thin.
I also love playing with the Crispy knob as it sprinkles some sparkles to the audio signal.
Features:
- Help vocals to stand out in a mix by giving them amazing presence, clarity, and compression. Can easily work on any other content.
- Acts like are preamp giving the signal a strong boost.
- Easy to use interface for fast results.
- Easy to read meters
- Very CPU efficient compared to other types of plugins.
- It can be used on many other audio sources as well.
System Requirements
- Vocal King supports MAC/Windows/32bit/64bit/VST2/VST3/AU. Supports MAC OS X 10.7 / Windows 7 and higher. Older systems may not work.
4.) Sonic Anomaly – Vola
Vola is a Voice Optimized Leveling Amplifier made for broadcast voice dynamics processing, it also works with different kinds of audio material, like drums, percussive instrument, and synth pads.
This fantastic tool is solely for cleaning up sound files but can be used for extreme compression effects as well.
Features
- Real-time Visual Metering for changes in dynamics
- Upwards & downwards compression, each separately adjustable.
- Stats Display and more compression settings
Download Vola Vst (Windows)
Download Vola Jsfx (Windows and Mac)
5.) g200kg – KeroVee
This is a pitch correction VST plugin tool and has strengthened to support natural pitch correction.
This tool is handy and can perform different and various types of voice effects, for example, a conversion of the male voice to a female voice and vice versa.
KeroVee comes bundled with useful parameters for the effectiveness of the auto-tuning process, Parameter includes:
- Scale Button: This is for specifying the scale you want to tune. Setting a wrong scale would result in an awful result, in a simple sentence, Know your scale before you go into this one
- TuneSpeed: This will allow you to set the speed of correcting the pitch.
- Nuance: This is one of the best and lovely parameters, you can use this to set a fine vibrato of the original sound, use this to create all sorts of weird effects.
- Amount: Set to zero (0) if you want no correction, setting to 100 will result in full correction of the pitch
- and many more parameters like Transpose option, master volume, etc.
System Requirements
- A compatible host program that supports the VST formats
6.) Martin Eastwood – Duet
Have you heard those natural double effects in some tracks! Do you wonder how those are created? I guess yes 😉
Let me introduce to you – Duet, a double-tracking effect designed to enhance your audio sample be it vocal or even instruments, Duet is well capable of sparkling them up. The way Duet work is by pitch-shifting both the left and right inputs individually using a novel synchronous overlap and add technique, allowing pitch to be manipulated in real-time while still maintaining the time duration of the audio.
One thing I love about Duet is the way it can accurately create the illusion of multi-voices and adds varied texture to the mix. Experiment with Duet to see how it works.
Note: This is only available for Window
7.) MaxSynths – DSP-2
DSP-2 is designed with an intelligent Dynamic Processor, a 4-band equalizer fixed on vocal key frequencies, a saturator, and a room emulator based on the Schroeder reverberator. DSP is super simple to use and can serve basically all your vocal processing needs, again, experiment and keep experimenting to get the best settings that would soothe your need.
Features:
- Intelligent Dynamic Processor (IDP).
- 4 different automatic operative modes.
- Selectable compression ratio.
- Saturator with three different operation modes.
- EQ fixed on vocal key frequencies.
- Room emulator based on the Schroeder reverb model.
- Transparent increment of the perceived volume level.
- High precision input/output VU-meter.
- Low CPU usage.
8.) Distorque – Azurite
Azurite is a vocal effect by Distorque which is built for multi-voice chorus with a focus on rich sounds and versatile controls.
According To Distorque:
My goal in designing it was to make as flexible a chorus as possible without losing great tones and ease of use. The result is an effect that will be handy for producers, guitarists, and glitch lovers alike.
One of the great features of this plugin is the way you can create multiple simultaneous voices. Each of these voices can be further customized with their own delay line that is modulated by a separate LFO. Adding multiple voices leads to a thicker, smoother, and less wobbly tone. It also makes vivid stereo spreading possible with a mono signal.
The voice control helps you to choose how many voices you want for the chorus, e.g one, two, four, or eight.
Features:
- Stereo or mono operation.
- Colour control emulates vintage analog choruses.
- 2 band EQ.
- LFO tempo sync.
- Feedback control allows for flanger sounds.
- 27 built-in presets.
- Delay time from 0.2ms to 200ms.
- 7 LFO shapes: Sine, Triangle, Sawtooth, Ramp, Exponential, Inverse Exponential, and Random.
- Spread control for a stereo widening of a mono signal.
- Control randomizer.
- Other controls: Depth, Speed, Wet Mix, Output, Separation, Dry Delay.
Note: This is only available for Window
Download Azurite Win 32 VST / Win 64 VST
9.) TerryWest – EasyVox
EasyVox contains a bunch of tool for vocal processing, such as:
- Dynamic mono vocal compressor/limiter/enhancer
- Three bands equalizer
- Autogain and Pre-Limiter
- Auto Noisegate
- Auto Band-off
- Three EQ models
- Fine EQ option
- EQ activity/bypass LEDs
- Low-Mid-Hicut
- Vocal Doubler effect
- Pre in/Post out gain
- In/out/reduction meters
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Note: This is only available for Window
10.) MGF – TimeWarp
Last on our list is Timewarp by MGF, which is a vibrato effect with 2 LFOs which can pan the pitch modulation amount for a stereo effect.
Features:
Vocal Chop Vst Free
- Sine, Triangle, Saw and random waves with control over the shape and smoothing.
- Optional 4x upsampling and a smooth modulation algorithm ensure clean sound with minimal aliasing. Normal quality
- saves CPU and sounds brighter but less silky.
- 2 different interpolation algorithms are available (ALG).
- Fast modulation settings possible and encouraged
That is it, Good luck and have fun with music!