Year/Date of Issue: 10.2021
Developer: iZotope
Developer website: iZotope
Format: VST, VST3, AAX
Bit depth: 64bit
Tablet: Not required
System requirements: Windows: 7+
Description : VocalSynth 2 is an immersive vocal experience that adapts and evolves with your unique style and opens up a world of new vocal possibilities.
Vocal Transformer: Transform your vocal parts with the most unique plugin ever. Quickly get the vintage vocal sound you want or create new wave vocals. Get lost in layers, textures, effects, blending and morphing in an experimental vocal playground and you will finally find that you have discovered the secret that makes your vocals stand out. Choose and combine five unique vocal instruments, or choose from hundreds of presets for a quick process.
Great Sound: VocalSynth has been reimagined to deliver the best sound, faster than ever. With improvements in almost every aspect of the plugin, it won’t be hard for you to find your unique sound no matter what genre you choose!
5 mixable, creative vocal modules:
BIOVOX: Create and manipulate your natural vocals with the new vocal module. Using scientific modeling of the human vocal tract, tune human vocal characteristics such as nasality, vowel response, and formants to give smooth, textural vocal processing to any audio signal. Use surgery to adapt, fit your performance better, or apply it as a creative effect to make vocals more real, breathable, or completely distort it!
VOCODER: A classic “talking synth”, Vocoder gives you the vocal sounds you know and love on famous recordings like Michael Jackson’s “P.Y.T” with the ability to create something new. Choose from 10 different presets and three different vocoder types, plus fine-tune with the Shift and Scale controls. You have never seen Vocoder with such flexibility!
COMPUVOX: Commonly known as the Speak & Spell effect, Compuvox can digitize, split, reprogram, or otherwise computerize the sound of your voice. By using it gently, you can add an interesting sonic quality to the sound. By turning up the settings, you can change your sound to almost unrecognizable levels of digital chaos.
TALKBOX: Get the trendiest sounds with the Talkbox module made famous by the likes of Stevie Wonder, The Who, Peter Frampton, Bon Jovi, Chromeo, Zapp and Roger (and many more). Talkboxes can be prohibitively difficult tools to master, but with VocalSynth you can get that tight classic tone at the touch of a button!
POLYVOX: polyphonic pitch shifter. Whether you want to create natural vocal harmonies reminiscent of a human choir, or the synchronized, grainy, and computerized harmonies popularized by artists like Imogen Heap, or even otherworldly, formant-shifted sounds, the Polyvox voice generator is for you!
Effects: Enhance your vocal tracks further with a custom chain of vocal effects. The effects section of VocalSynth 2 now allows you to change the order of modules!
Interactive Visualization: Experience colorful Anemone animations that move and grow with the shape of your audio waveform. With advanced spectral analysis that responds to the sonic signature of vowels, Anemone links animation to a unique audio signal measurement experience.
Plugin integration: VocalSynth 2 works within the iZotope product ecosystem through cross-platform communication. Like Neutron, Ozone and Tonal Balance Control, VocalSynth 2 provides seamless integration with essential tools for music production and analysis. VocalSynth 2 can be seen in Neutron 2’s Visual Mixer and Masking Meter, as well as Tonal Balance Control, allowing you to interact and receive real-time visual feedback.
3 Ways to Process: Three different modes let you interact with VocalSynth 2 in a way that suits your style. Helpful app setup instructions tailored to your DAW keep you up and running with ease, so you can spend more time making creative decisions:
Auto: Pitch your vocals with real-time pitch correction, generate additional voices and harmonies, and seamlessly blend your module’s settings with the intuitive VocalSynth control panel.
MIDI: Use the MIDI signal to control the pitch and effortlessly create custom vocal harmonies as you play. This replicates the experience of using a classic vocoder.
Side chain: Instead of using a synthesizer in VocalSynth, singing can be used as a carrier signal. This allows You can’t make any sounds “talk” or create new outlandish sounds that wouldn’t be possible otherwise.
From the description:
“Pitch your vocals with real-time pitch correction”
I gotta wonder about this……. let’s say someone has near-zero ability to come within even tolerable distance of pitch. They hear themselves while doing the vocal track, on monitors in real time, which must sound intolerable to them, so they compensate in real time……. like a dog chasing his own tail. Perhaps it works best when you don’t monitor your own voice?