choral

Sing, hold a chord, hear it back

Put CHORAL on a vocal, send it MIDI, and hold a chord. Your voice comes back singing those notes, and the name of the chord shows at the top of the window.

The synth is inside the plugin, so there is no second instrument to set up. Your voice decides the shape, the notes you play decide the pitch.

Two sounds, split where you want

One carrier across every band is the norm. CHORAL has two. Below the split, zone A plays. Above it, zone B plays with a wave of its own. Drag the split and the voice changes exactly there.

Either zone can take an outside sound instead of the synth, like a pad or a drum loop, while the other keeps playing your notes.

From robot to almost speech

BANDS is a dial from 4 to 256. A few bands give the thick, retro robot. Many give detail, close to natural speech.

Between the named engines the count glides, and every control can be automated from your DAW, so one phrase can travel from one sound to the other.

Put a kick on a vocal

Put drums on the input and a vocal on the sidechain, then turn up PUNCH. The kick now moves every band of the vocal.

Normally a kick barely opens a vocoder, because a vocal has almost nothing down where a kick lives. PUNCH listens to the whole beat instead, so the vocal pumps with it.

The chord follows the singer

PITCH FOLLOW keeps the notes you play and gives the chord the singer’s vibrato and bends, up to 50 cents either way. A singer a little off pitch does not pull it out of tune.

FREEZE catches the shape of your voice the moment you press it and holds it, so one syllable becomes a steady pad. GLIDE slides each voice into the next chord.

Finish it inside

Chorus, phaser, drive and stereo, each with a picture of what it is doing. They work on the vocoded sound only. Your dry voice is never touched.