I once thought that autotune was the one responsible for the robotic voices I heard on some tracks, and while that was true for some songs, it wasn’t for the majority, so let’s explain the difference here.Īutotune is a pitch correction plugin that automatically detects the notes that a person signs that are out of key, which means they are out of the scale and corrects that note to fit the scale.
You can use both or just one, but my advice is always to try different things and have fun with it. There are different types of vocoders because some plugins are just simple vocoders that are used in a particular way and other plugins have vocoders inside them but also have more feature and they are not used as a regular vocoder. There are also plugins that have a built-in vocoder that you can use simply loading the plugin on the same bus as the vocal. Now you can draw chords in the synth and place the pattern below the vocal to use the vocoder. To use a vocoder you first have to assign the vocal to a bus in the mixer and then pan it to the left, then assign a synth to another bus and pan it to the right, the next step would be to have the vocoder in other track of the mixer and in the vocoder select the modulator to the left and the carrier to the right. Also, the possibilities with the harmonies are bigger than with a normal harmony, because you can reach very high or very low notes which would be difficult for a person to replicate. You can really get creative as the sound of the vocoder can be anything you want. An artist who is very famous for his vocoder is Zedd as he was one of the first to use it in pop/dance songs like “middle” or “stay”. I am sure you have heard a vocoder in use in many tracks, even if traditionally was more used in electronic music it has extended to other genres, and a lot of artists use it in pop and in the new global trend, trap.
With a vocoder, you can make harmonies for a vocal without having to record them or add just a bassline that sounds like a guttural sound and fits more the voice than a simple bassline. A vocoder is a plugin that makes a voice sound like a robot or electronic, but it also has more uses.
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