iVoxel user manual - VirSyn Software Synthesizer
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1. Voxel The Singing Vocoder AUTOPITCH TOLERANCE PYADTH DETUNE GENDER CUTOFF CONSONANT BREATH a A VirSyn Software Synthesizer 1st Edition Introduction Quick Basics Edit Page Control Page What is a Vocoder ca ei sated Na A ES What is a VOX It it a B08 dins A A A A Tet ea PN Starr Speak MIKE a RODO Uried EE REDIAY VOU VO ai a eentceen acess SING F CUR Cl o decucacvevecensne des atacaonnaueeetes BETONO A o LO EE O DO aces a SING 10 Melo Visa iaa ODem Save Projects nai a oO PASSION VO a TA PUGCIO ROCORGING SiO AUGIOCODY 7 SOUNG ClOUG iia aA a A acne E ae en geenes SOUIMG CONTO usais sn ee endo de te de 0d ttle Gaia VOX El COME EE AT WDC OR GO MEE oe do a E WAL CFIA E siccd ced e te a Rat at ae isis 4 io 4 EP CGE a A A onto wee ee ee tees tee 26 ENOTU St di acta E ar fone asae he ew ead ansiecened ees muse neeae Micseeedd 26 A E Re oe ne E ER ee eT Ee RR ete Be E 27 A A wien E curate 27 VOX PoC Cadets tec r neuen soeet estan bianca haat teh aeoneneen taser 28 FROG Ol Char OG io E 28 IMPOrta VOX lisis edastaollcdcat 29 Lo Ni A VOX Cl rcs e O ae anes 29 Sequence tad sonoro iia ais 30 E O 32 Sequence Naviga ON ismael 33 ADENT read 34 IVOXCI tor Matias io aia 34 TEOUD ESA CANA da 35 page 3 WHAT IS A VOCODER The Vocoder was invented by Homer Dudley in the mid 30 s of the last century Dudley worked at Bell Laboratories and this is where the first Vocoder too2. 13 Speak Sing the word s into the microphone while holding the note 14 Recording ends with releasing the note played page 28 Now you should see the spectral display of your recorded voxel The green line shows you the pitch variation of your recording The recording is named _lastrecorded and will be overwritten with every new record take If you want to save your Voxel tap into the name field or on the Save button Then give it a meaningful name and you re done IMPORT A VOXEL If you already have a recording of a voice which you want to convert to a Voxel you can use the Voxel Import function Copy the wave file on your computer into the iTunes File Sharing window for iVoxel Sync your device Make sure the microphone is disabled Enable recording by tapping on the record button to the right of the mic button Now a list of the wave files copied with the file sharing pops up D u FW N BE Select the file you want to import and tap Import Now you should see the spectral display of your recorded voxel The green line shows you the pitch variation of your recording The recording is automatically saved with the name of the file imported Please note that currently the import works only with WAV files having a sample rate of 44100 Hz EDIT A VOXEL The voxel page shows you the spectrum of the voxel over the time There are three markers which you can edit Start Hold and End With a click into the spectru
3. BKGD AUDIO If set iVoxel doesn t stop working if running in the background This let you for example play an iTunes song in the foreground and you can sing to this song using iVoxel page 25 Effect Page iVoxel comes with three high quality effects Chorus Delay and Reverberation VOXEL SEQUENCE 001 01 01 120 bpm FEEDBACK DELAY RATE LEVEL REVERB DELAY REVERB TIME ROOM SIZE DIFFUSION 0900S 8000 FEEDBACK DELAY CUTOFF LEVEL ABSORPTION STEREO DRY WET MASTER DELAY CROSS OA ee AA ASSIGN VOXEL Use the chorus effect to fatten the voice and give it more width in the stereo panorama CHORUS e DEPTH This parameter controls the depth of the delay modulation e FEEDBACK Sets the feedback amount for the delay lines of the chorus to further increase the chorus effect e DELAY The mean delay time of the chorus Set this to 10 20ms for typical chorus effect e RATE The modulation rate of the effect e LEVEL The mix level between the chorused signal and the original For maximum effect turn to 100 page 26 DELAY The delay effect provides you with two different types of delay effects using two delay lines The delay times are set by note lengths and are relative to the currently set tempo The delayed signal can be feed back to the input for echo effects You can select between a stereo delay and a ping pong delay where the echoes bounces across the stereo field e FEEDBACK Controls the decay time of the
4. the AKAI SynthStation 25 controller The on screen keyboard seems to miss a pitch bender modulation wheel but this functions are there in a more touch screen compatible way page 17 OPEN SAVE PROJECTS iVoxel saves all settings including the sequencer notes in projects Several projects are already supplied and you can save your own creations To access the project popup tap on the down arrow button in the top bar projects A choir A demo Sequence A natural voice A robot Amazing Angry AutoPitch Bne Be female Be male Bounce Chorded Closer Sinister Whisper e To select a project tap on the entry and then tap outside the popup to close it e To Save your current settings tap on Save and enter a name in the following dialog e With New you can start with an empty default project Project files can be accessed via Tunes File Sharing They are saved there with the file extension sng Mac OS X version Use the application menu to open save projects The projects files are saved there in Music iVoxel songs page 18 ASSIGN VOXELS For live play on the keyboard you can assign voxels to keys or a key range There are two ways of doing this If you tap in the Voxel Selection field a selection popup window appears where you can select a Voxel for use with the entire keyboard range This Voxel plays then regardless of the note tapped But you can also assign different voxels to keyboard zones by u
5. 3 7 To set the loop end tap on the loop bar at your desired end position The loop positions are always quantized to a quarter note therefore you don t have to pick the precise position Please note that the Loop is now automatically enabled you can see ore Se CONTROL EFFECT VOXEL SEQUENCE PS i 001 01 04 120 bpm GLIDE PITCH COARSE PITCH FINE MONO FOLLOW P P 1 AUTOPITCH TOLERANCE PWIDTH DETUNE GENDER CUTOFF CONSONANT BREATH 8900090 ASSIGN VOXEL as z that the loop symbol in the top bar turned yellow 001 01 01 120 bpm Loop begin Loop end page 14 8 Now go back to the Edit page with a tap on EDIT in the top bar Here we need to activate the microphone In the keyboard bar above the keyboard you ll find the microphone button Tap on the microphone button to activate live input GENDER CUTOFF CONSONANT BREATH OAO Up On The Dance Fle U 9 Now we re set Start the sequencer by tapping on the play button and speak into the Microphone The melody from the sequencer will now take care of your correct intonation page 15 Basics The user interface of iVoxel is divided into a top bar for page navigation and sequencer transport the parameter window and the on screen keyboard with the keyboard bar containing additional functions TOP BAR CONTROL EFFECT VOXEL SEQUENCE 001 01 01 120 bpm Functions from left to right e Open Save projects see below for more deta
6. 3 Now speak into the microphone while playing some notes on the keyboard and enjoy the new sound of your voice page 7 REPLAY YOUR VOICE With this exercise you can record the words you re speaking and play them afterwards with the keys on the keyboard This time we choose a more natural sounding project which also will replicate your speech melody 1 Select the project A natural voice from the list of projects as described above 2 Tap on the microphone button to activate live input 3 Tap on the record button to the left to activate recording GENDER CUTOFF CONSONANT BREATH IIA JE U 1 4 The recording actually starts with playing a note on the keyboard Speak or Sing while holding a note on the keyboard Lift your finger to stop the recording 5 What you ve just done is what we call recording a Voxel which you can play now on the keyboard Just play and you ll here your you words again with another voice page 8 SING PERFECT iVoxel has a built in automatic pitch correction which will change the pitch of your voice in a manner that it sounds correct The following exercise allows you to sing in tune with a chromatic scale set This one also needs a headset to prevent feedback 1 Tap on the down arrow in the upper left corner to open the project list Now select the project AutoPitch and leave the project popup by tapping anywhere outside 001 01 01 120 bpm projects A
7. OXEL SEQUENC Loop begin Loop end Tap on the position in the loop bar where you want to set a loop marker Now select either Loop begin or Loop end to set the appropriate marker Please note that loop playback is only active if you tap on the loop icon to the left of the play button in the top bar Quantize options 001 01 01 120 bpm Quantize To select one of the quantize options tap on the quantize button Please note that the note positions are only quantized for playback and sequencer display You can always go back to the original state with the option free SHOW ALL Tap here to zoom out for seeing all notes page 31 GRID EDITOR The grid editor works with two different modes Insert and Selection To switch between both modes tap on the Pencil button on the lower right corner of the grid editor 001 01 01 120 bpm Select Voxel Human Beat HiHat Human Beat Kick Human Beat Rhythm Human Beat Rude Kick Human Beat Snare Human Boat Whistle i Am Worthy Because He Said So Just Wanna Thank You IBMatriv ail oll a Remove Voxel Functions in Insert Mode e To enter new notes tap and swipe left to adjust note length Short tap to insert a note of length as set in Quantize e Tap on note to delete it Functions in Selection Mode e Drag to select a rectangular area of notes for editing deletion T
8. T BREATH 0009 U 3 Now sing or speak into the microphone and play some chords on the keyboard This is fat isn t it Try playing with the DETUNE parameter to spread the tuning differences of the voices in your choir page 10 SING TO MELODY The built in sequencer of iVoxel allows you to automatically play a melody while you Speak into the microphone What you will hear is your vocoded voice singing this melody 1 Tap on the down arrow in the upper left corner to open the project list Now select the project A robot and leave the project popup by tapping anywhere outside 001 01 01 120 bpm projects A choir A demo Sequence A natural voice PYADTH DETUMNE GENDER CUTOFF CONSONANT BREATH ASSK ON VOKEL gt 44 001 01 01 120 bpm ALLI page 11 3 To enter notes tap on the Pencil button to enter Insert mode 4 To ease the insertion of notes we want them to be quantized to 16th Tap on the QUANTIZE Button and select 16th 001 01 01 120 bpm QUANTIZE SHOW ALL O de Quantize page 12 5 To insert notes just draw them from left to right Tap on a already drawn note to delete it errect vox CQUEN 001 01 01 120 bpm ALLA 6 Now we want this melody to loop around Tap into the loop bar at the beginning and select Loop begin from the floating menu V MRO vox JUNE gt 001 01 01 120 bpm Loop begin Loop end ALA page 1
9. ap on one note to select a single note e Move note s by tapping in the gray area of the selection rectangle and dragging to the desired position e Adjust length of selected note s by tapping in the blue area of the selection rectangle and dragging to the left right for shortening lengthening the selected note s e Copy Cut operation from menu after selection e Tap on the time line a little bit longer to set the sequence position for pasting Select Paste from floating menu to paste the notes e Select single note to add remove Voxel for this note Undo Tap on the back arrow button in the lower left corner to undo last editing s page 32 SEQUENCE NAVIGATION Keyboard on the right Drag to scroll visible note range pinch to zoom note range Time bar below grid Drag to scroll visible time range pinch to zoom time range Double tap zooms to display exactly one bar Tap long to set position mark for playback and for paste position Zoom All Button Tap to zoom out to display complete song page 33 IVOXEL FOR MAC Some dialogs differ slightly from the iPad version but have essentially the same functionality You can use the application menu to manage song files The SoundCloud export and audio copy function is not available in the Mac Version You should use the recorded audio files instead Storage folders The Mac version uses the folder Music iVoxel to store voxel files songs and recordin
10. based on the Matrix vocoder from VirSyn used by many famous artists one of them the well known german group Kraftwerk The channel filters used by iVoxel are based on the Sennheiser Vocoder VSM201 resulting in a rich and fat analogue sound characteristic WHAT IS A VOXEL A voxel is a small segment of analyzed vocal samples which can be replayed by the keyboard or sequencer Many voxels mostly words are included in iVoxel for immediate use In addition you can record your own voxels using your voice or by importing a wave file page 4 FEATURES e Realtime analysis resynthesis of your voice e Vocoder filter with 24 bands e Individually adjustable filter level for each band e Accurate realtime pitch follower e Automatic tuning correction to selectable scale e Voice spectrum recorder voxels e About 300 prerecorded voxels included e Play your vocoded voice live on keyboard Drag for slides and vibrato e Polyphonic sequencer for notes amp lyrics e Voice optimized polyphonic synthesizer e Time warping of voxels e Voxel scratching function e Gender changer e Breath noise e 12dB Lowpass filter e Pitch vibrato with delay e Chorus Delay effects e Hi end Reverberation effect e Compatible with Akai SynthStation25 iPhone iPod version e Use any CoreMIDI compatible MIDI keyboard with the iPad Mac version e Uses MIDI Controller or finger movements to modulate Gender Vibrato e Export Import of projects and voxels e Expo
11. choir A demo Sequence A natural voice A robot Amazing Angry AutoPitch Bne Bo female Be male Bounce Chorded Closer Sinister Whisper 2 For live vocoding we need to activate the microphone In the keyboard bar above the keyboard you ll find the microphone button Tap on the microphone button to activate live input CUTOFF CONSONANT BREATH 0009 U 3 Now sing into the microphone and you will hear that your always in tune For a more drastic effect set the TOLERANCE to O and select another scale for example Pentatonic major page 9 BE A CHOIR The built in synthesizer of iVoxel has two special choir waves which can generate 8 slightly detuned oscillators per voice for the typical fat choir sound Together with the fact that you can play up to 8 notes in polyphonic mode this means you can have a choir with up to 64 voices Please use headphones for this one 1 2 Tap on the down arrow in the upper left corner to open the project list Now select the project A choir and leave the project popup by tapping anywhere outside 001 01 01 120 bpm projects A demo Sequence A natural voice A robot Amazing Angry AutoPitch Be fernale Bounce Chorded Closer Sinister Whisper For live vocoding we need to activate the microphone In the keyboard bar above the keyboard you ll find the microphone button Tap on the microphone button to activate live input CUTOFF CONSONAN
12. echoes e DELAY Sets the the delay time in note lengths e CROSS Switch between Stereo and Cross Ping Pong delay e CUTOFF A lowpass filter is build into the feedback loop of the delay This parameter controls the cutoff of this filter resulting in successive echoes sounding darker e LEVEL The level of the delayed sound REVERB The reverb unit in iVoxel is a stripped down version of our hi end reverb REFLECT which is famous for his natural and smooth sound Please note that the reverb unit is not available on iPhone 3g because of performance restrictions e DELAY Sets the amount of time that elapses between the direct sound and the reverberation tail This time correlates with the perceived size of the simulated room The adjustable range is from O ms to 300 ms e REVERB TIME The time the reverb takes to die away by 60dB after the end of the initial sound This parameter correlates with the perceived size of the simulated room The adjustable range is from 50 ms to 100 seconds e ROOM SIZE The room size parameter sets the average distance between the reflecting walls e DIFFUSION The Diffusion parameter controls the echo density of the resulting reverberant sound The adjustable range is from 0 to 100 A higher value corresponds to a higher echo density which is in most cases more natural sounding e ABSORPTION The Absorption parameter simulates the surface and air absorption of high frequencies The adjustable ra
13. gs page 34 TROUBLESHOOTING Fresh installation Sometimes Apps having problems after first installation or update Please try the following e trash the app e boot your device most important e repurchase again from the AppStore you don t have to pay again they know that you already have e sometimes another reboot can be helpful e This removes usually problems of this kind and has only be done once CoreMIDI problems There is no special setting in IVoxel to make it work On default iVoxel listens to all MIDI channels for input Check the channel setting with the button MIDI on the Control Page This should be set to Omni to allow input from all channels Sometimes it may help if you reboot the device and try it again Please make also sure that your keyboard is compatible to CoreMIDI you can find a list of compatible MIDI Keyboards here http iosmidi com devices Report crash logs If the App suddenly quits during working a crash log is generated helping us identifying the problem Please send us this crash log for further analysis Here you can find an excellent article on how to access crash log files page 35
14. he file name just tap on the name field and enter the new file name Tap on the right arrow of an existing recording in the list to replay it Mac OS X version the list of recorded files is not available you can access the recordings in the folder Music iVoxel recordings instead page 20 AUDIOCOPY SOUNDCLOUD The recorded audio can also be copied into the Audio Pasteboard and uploaded to SoundCloud in this Popup Mac OS X version SoundCloud export is not available page 21 Edit Page This page gives you access to the most important voice shaping parameters of iVoxel 001 01 01 120 bpm GLIDE PITCH COARSE PITCH FINE MONO FOLLOW gt 1 1 AUTOPITCH TOLERANCE 00 PWIDTH DETUNE GENDER CUTOFF CONSONANT BREATH BALAI 7 ASSIGN VOXEL put PITCH CONTROL e MONO Switch between monophonic and polyphonic mode Up to 8 voices can be played simultaneously in polyphonic mode e FOLLOW Tracks the pitch of your voice in realtime If switched off the pitch stays constant and is controlled by the notes coming from the keyboard This gives the classic robotic sound of a vocoder If switched the pitch of your voice is analyzed and modulates the pitch of the output In this case the keyboard can be used to transpose the pitch to your liking e GLIDE Gives you the typical portamento while playing in monophonic mode i e the pitch glides smoothly between the notes If FOLLOW is set then this paramete
15. ils e Switch to EDIT page e Switch to CONTROL page e Switch to EFFECT page e Switch to Voxel page e Switch to SEQUENCE page e VirSyn Logo opens About box e Sequencer Rewind e Sequencer Loop On Off e Sequencer Play e Current Sequencer position e Tempo Metronome setting opens Tempo Metrononme page e Audio Recording opens audio recorder page e Question mark open help overlay for current page page 16 KEYBOARD BAR e Q If Key Quantize is set swiping over the keys is constrained to exact tuning Glissando otherwise pitch bends continuously Glide This function is not available in the Mac OS X version e Keyboard range Tap to select keyboard range double tap to size the keyboard e ASSIGN VOXEL opens window where you can assign different voxels to keyboard zones see below for details e VOXEL Selection field Select a voxel here if you want to assign the same voxel to all keys e Microphone button Activate microphone for live input instead of Voxel play e Voxel recorder button Here you can either record or import Voxels depending on the state of the microphone button Microphone active Recording of Voxel starts with playing a note on the keyboard Recording ends with Note off Microphone off Imports Voxel from audio file KEYBOARD iVoxel can be played by either the on screen keyboard or a CoreMIDI compatible Hardware controller keyboard The iPhone iPod version can also be used with
16. k shape The basic function of a Vocoder is characterized by an analysis of the input signal usually speech but other type of inputs can also be very interesting In a special filter bank a spectral analysis is performed and signals are developed which follows the amount of spectral energy in each channel Another part of the analyzer tests if there are unvoiced or voiced sounds at any particular time and extracts the pitch of the voiced sounds The output section of the vocoder consists of a synthesis filter bank which assembles the new synthetic speech from the characteristic filter envelopes from the analysis stage together with an external or internal replacement signal IVOXEL Voxel is not only an amazingly sounding vocoder for iPhone iPod and iPad Mac the unique concept of iVoxel turns this vocoder into a singing machine going far beyond the capabilities of traditional and software vocoders on any platform Some usage scenarios for iVoxel e Speak or sing into your head set mic transforming your voice in a wide variety of ways e Record words syllables or other sounds into the voxel dictionary for later reuse e Play different voxels live on the keyboard with ingenious pitch bending e Arrange and play melodies with the built in sequencer and add the lyrics from a user expandable dictionary of voxels iVoxel is a combination of a voice optimized synthesizer and a vocoder with an unprecedented intelligibility The vocoder part is
17. ltiSaw and MultiPulse Low values are good for choir sounds high values result in cluster like inharmonic voices e GENDER Shifts the filter bands of the vocoder filter either to higher or lower frequencies This enables you to change the voice characteristic from male to female e CUTOFF Here you can damp the higher frequencies of the oscillators for a more dull sounding voice e CONSONANT Sets the level of consonant sounds like t sch p relative to the level of vowel sounds a e i O u A proper relation is crucial for the intelligibility of the vocoded voice iVoxel uses a noise generator for the unpitched consonant sounds and an oscillator bank for pitched vowel sounds If you want iVoxel to use the pitched oscillators also for consonant sounds turn this parameter all the way down e BREATH Adds some aspiration noise to the sound of your voice This sounds especially well for low pitched voices page 23 Control Page The control page let you VOXEL SEQUENCE le 4 001 01 01 120 bpm TIME WARP VIBRATO DELAY RATE AMOUNT RETRIGGER HOLD PITCH BEND GENDER MODULATION SOURCE AMOUNT MODULATION SOURCE AMOUNT eo BKGD Ss AUDIO a ASSIGN VOXEL VOXEL CONTROL e RETRIGGER If set the current voxel restarts with every new Note On from the keyboard e HOLD If set the Voxel is hold as long as a key is touched The remaining part of the Voxel is played after release of the key If not se
18. m at one of these markers and dragging to the right left you can move the markers position in the voxel The function of Start and End are pretty obvious but what is the Hold position If you tap and hold down a note on the keyboard the voxel will play until the Hold position is reached With release of the key the rest of the voxel is played Typically you will set the hold position to the strongest vowel in your word While dragging the hold position the sound of the voxel at this position is played Dragging up down changes the pitch of the sound page 29 Sequence Page One of the most unique features in iVoxel is the possibility to enter notes together with Lyrics in form of voxels into a sequencer This is the reason why we called iVoxel The Singing Machine If the microphone is active your live input is used instead of the voxels assigned to the notes in the sequence This gives you the possibility to speak sing to a predefined melody o oon gt PP nan CONTROL FFECT VO A 001 01 01 120 bpm QUANTIZE SHOW ALL _ a ill o o ll ya The Sequencer is divided in four parts e Loop bar on the top Tap to open menu to change loop start and end e Grid editor in the middle Here you can enter and edit your notes and lyrics voxels e Time bar on the bottom for navigation e Keyboard on the right side for navigation page 30 Set loop markers CONTROL EFFECT V
19. nge is from 0 to 100 Due to absorption the reverberation time is shorter for high frequencies than for low frequencies With higher absorption high frequencies will decay much faster e STEREO Adjusts the stereo image width of the reverberation tail e DRY WET Balance between the dry and reverberant part of the output signal e MASTER The master volume level of iVoxel page 27 Voxel Page A voxel is a set of parameters from an analyzed vocal samples which can be replayed by the keyboard or sequencer Why not just simply record the vocoded voice In contrast to a recording the voxel can be manipulated in more interesting ways You can use the analyzed pitch shown by the green line in the display below or replace it with a constant pitch using the FOLLOW switch from the Edit Page The formants can be changed independent from the pitch with the GENDER parameter Many voxels mostly words are included in iVoxel for immediate use In addition you can record your own voxels using your voice or by importing a wave file V EDIT CONTROL EFFECT VOXEL SEQUENCE lt 001 01 01 120 bpm Konichiwa ASSIGN VOXEL oH Sha R RECORD A VOXEL To record a voxel from your voice you have to take the following steps 10 Enable the microphone by tapping on the mic button in the keyboard bar 11 Enable recording by tapping on the record button to the right of the mic button 12 The recording starts with playing a note on the keyboard
20. r also smoothes the pitch tracked from your voice input e PITCH COARSE Here you can tune the master pitch in semitones with a range of one octave page 22 e PITCH FINE Fine tune the master pitch within a range of 50 cent e SCALE Sets the tuning Scale for the keyboard and the automatic pitch correction e AUTOPITCH If set the tuning of your voice and also from recorded voxels will be automatically corrected using the scale set above e TOLERANCE This parameter effects the working of the automatic pitch correction With high values of tolerance the pitch will stay longer on a note Use this for a more natural pitch correction effect SOUND CONTROL e FILTER BAND The 24 yellow bars show you the relative level of the filter bands YOu can change the levels by drawing in this window Changing the levels gives you quite drastic variations of the voice color e WAVE Sets the basic waveform used by the internal synthesizer of iVoxel You can select between different analog waveforms and a noise generator suitable for whispering voices Use one of the two multi waveforms MultiSaw and MultiPulse for fat choirs They are generated by 8 detuned oscillators per voice The detuning can be adjusted with the DETUNE parameter e PWIDTH Sets the pulsewidth of the Pulse and MultiPulse waveform To get the frequency characteristic of a natural voice set this to about 15 e DETUNE Sets the detuning of the choir waveforms Mu
21. rt of audio recordings e Copy audio recordings to Clipboard for use with other Apps e SoundCloud Export e Virtual MIDI and Background Audio support e compatible to CoreMIDI and Akai SynthStation25 page 5 This App is available for iPhone iPods for iPads and for Mac OS X This manual is based on the iPad version of iVoxel Please note that some dialogs have a different look on the iPhone iPod version and the Mac OS X version The functionality is basically the same for all platforms There are only minor differences noted in this manual page 6 Quick start Here you ll find some step for step instructions for some simple use cases of Voxel SPEAK LIKE A ROBOT The first exercise uses the live vocoding capabilities of iVoxel You have to use headphones or a headset for this one to work to avoid the inevitable feedback Please note that the Mac OS X version uses a standard open dialog for loading projects instead of the popup window shown in these examples 1 Select a robotic voice from the supplied projects Tap on the down arrow in the upper left corner to open the project list Now select the project A robot and leave the project popup by tapping anywhere outside 001 01201 120 bpm projects 2 For live vocoding we need to activate the microphone In the keyboard bar above the keyboard you ll find the microphone button Tap on the microphone button to activate live input GENDER CUTOFF CONSONANT BREATH OAO
22. sing ASSIGN VOXEL Tap on ASSIGN VOXEL and a dark overlay gets visible on the keyboard Just tap on the key position you want to have a voxel assigned to Then a popup menu appears which allows you to select a voxel or insert a voxel into a new keyboard range With remove you can delete the association of a keyboard range and a voxel A poo ASSIGN Select Insert Remove vous Compute Concert Val ce page 19 AUDIO RECORDINGS Tap on the record button red circle in the top bar to bring up the Audio Recorder popover which let you enter the recorder settings and you can start recording of audio from here 001 01 01 120 bpm Recordings d audio is copied into the Aud is Audio and MIDI file You file sharing window in the i7 unes A demo Sequence Avusadora 2012 01 20 10 09 52 Length 0 8 seconds Baila Baila 2012 01 20 10 10 Bailadores 2012 01 20 10 10 34 Boriquas 2012 01 20 10 10 51 Length 1 4 seconds Dig This 012 01 20 10 12 00 Length 1 4 seconds gt SoundCloud gt Clipboard Recording starts after a count in of one bar indicated by the metronome and stops after the number of bars specified in the field above by using the and buttons Start the recording with a tap on the Record button The recorded audio is saved in a wave file with a default file name record wav You can access the the files in the iTunes File sharing folder for iVoxel To change t
23. t the Voxel plays from start to end and stops on release of the key e TIME WARP Makes Voxels speak faster or slower than the original tempo page 24 MIDI CONTROL PITCH BEND Sets the pitchbend range for CoreMIDI compatible keyboard GENDER MODULATION SOURCE Select the MIDI Controller to modulate the Gender parameter here Note that swiping on the on screen keyboard up and down has the Same effect as using the modulation wheel of a connected Hardware keyboard GENDER MODULATION AMOUNT Sets the amount of modulation by the controller VIBRATO DELAY Sets the time from the onset of the note until the vibrato is in full effect VIBRATO RATE Frequency of the vibrato modulation 1 Hz 32 Hz VIBRATO AMOUNT Amount of vibrato modulation O 400 cent VIBRATO MODULATION SOURCE Select the MIDI Controller to modulate the Vibrato amount here Note that swiping on the on screen keyboard up and down has the same effect as using the modulation wheel of a connected Hardware keyboard VIBRATO MODULATION AMOUNT Sets the amount of modulation by the controller INTERFACES Please note that the following parameter are on the Master page in the iPhone version of iVoxel MIDI Sets the MIDI channel iVoxel is listening for MIDI Notes coming from an external Keyboard or from another App connected via virtual MIDI WIST Tap here to synchronize the sequencer operation and the tempo to a KORG WIST compatible App
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