Waldorf Lector Vocoder Plug-in

Robotic voices, whispering strings, speaking drum loops, rhythmic pads, resonant bell sounds - water drops... the possibilities are endless. With Lector completely new sounds and effects can be created from any incoming signal in no time. Be it for the alienation of singing, the subtle addition of a choir song to the main voice or for creative film scoring - the Lector user can expect an extremely wide range of applications thanks to its enormous flexibility. The analysis filter bank splits the incoming audio signal into up to one hundred frequency bands, whose intensities control the volumes of the same number of bandpass filters in the synthesis filter bank. Either the integrated 16-voice synthesizer or an externally fed signal serves as the input of the synthesis filter bank. This makes it possible to articulate singing or speech through a recorded melody or chord progression. When developing the Lector , we looked deeply into the special features - and the special requirements - of a powerful vocoder. Important and unusual parameters can be found under the ergonomic graphic interface, which allow the system to be influenced down to the smallest detail. In addition to the legendary Waldorf multimode filter with 12dB or 24dB slope, there is a whitening filter that first "blenishes" the sound signal before it is "colored" in the vocoder - particularly useful for the explicit processing of choir or voice samples. A three-band equalizer emphasizes or attenuates certain frequencies of the generated signal if desired. The integrated 16-voice synthesizer offers two oscillators with typical analog waveforms such as sine, triangle, sawtooth and square with variable pulse width, sample & hold and noise, as well as freely loadable single and multi-samples. FM and ring modulation supplement the vocoder signal with additional overtone spectra. In addition, Lector offers a selection of typical effects that further refine the vocoder signal: overdrive with tube overdrive, transistor distortion and hard clipping, 6-fold chorus / flanger, synchronizable stereo delay and a convincing reverb.