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Marla Hutchkiss
Easy to use for beginners, yet incredibly powerful for Veterans: The user interface offers a standard single panel view. Everything is there, right in front of you, with a great number of presets to get you started. Should you want, or need, to go deeper, the Logo Center Panel will switch to a vast selection of advanced panels displaying the advanced parameters of the XILS Vocoder 5000 module you wish to explore and experiment with. And there are dozens of advanced parameters, for your joy.
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Like all vocoders, Vocoder 5000 (VST/AU/ RTAS/AAX) works by splitting a modulator input (eg, a vocal) into a number of bands using an array of band-pass filters, the levels of which are analysed by envelope followers.
As well as the plugin's ability to use an external carrier source, Vocoder 5000 is superior to ELS Vocoder in two key areas: it includes a decent amount of patches, and the number of bands can be changed (admittedly the only options are 20 or 22 bands, but that at least gives the user the choice of 'lo-fi' and 'hi-fi' modes).
Next level Xox Sequencer : Variable number of steps per beat, beats per bar. 4 to 64 steps per bar. Asymmetric & ternary rhythms. Per Step : Custom P.Lock parameters, Divisi, Gate Time, Micro Position, Velocity. Song Mode to organise patterns, steps parameters modulating Synthesis parameters.
At first glance, it is an interesting new multi-fx plugin from XILS-Lab. Not a huge one but one focusing on classic sounds with a curated number of effects. If you are searching for a multi-fx with tons of algorithms, this is not the right plugin for you.
Standard STEP and specific LOC locator sequencers for modulating effects are also available -- the loop goes through a defined number of steps and each time the internal clock is fired the next step is triggered, in the case of the former, while the latter is designed to be synchronised to the DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) with the loop being synchronised to the DAW bar (or a multiple of the bar).
Who better, then, to put Ring'X in its rightful place than the Frenchman primarily responsible for bringing it into existence -- namely, XILS-lab CEO Xavier Oudin (credited in the multi-effect plug-in in question's user manual with: Concept of Ring'X and original UI design; Digital Signal Processing and plug-in coding; [and] the graphical user interface). "For a number of years, customers have been regularly asking me to create an effect featuring filters extracted from our synthesizers," he begins, before adding: "This idea grew into providing a sort of Swiss army knife-style tool capable of sculpting audio with modulation fully independent of its content, and also able to create any kind of de-esser and transient shaper with far more possibilities than standard such effects. Eventually, Ring'X was born."
Here are a couple "presets" for Ableton's vocoder that get you in the ballpark of a Sennheiser VSM201 and a EMS 5000. I referenced the service manual of the VSM201 to match the band range (100Hz - 8kHz), band number (20), and filter order (8-pole), then tuned it by ear.
As I was starting to get into virtual modulars, one prominent maker switched the graphical code to something that was unsupported by my computer. A number of years later, I stumbled onto Voltage Modular. It worked on my PC quite well and after a day of playing with the free version (Nucleus) and finding it so intuitive based on my early Moog experiences, I upped my investment with VM Core + Electro Drums.
For instance, regarding audio quality and emulation authenticity my favorite system is the Softube Modular. But I don't like their GUI as they created an almost one-to-one equivalence to a real hardware modular and IMO this makes the patching unnecessarily complicated for a computer program. In this regard the best virtual modular I used were the Nord Modular G2 or the Modular IV from Creamware (both hardware DSP based). In those systems you can create a patch and if you want to play it polyphonically you just need to increase the number of voices in an option box.
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