The Vocoder External Carrier demo project includes an audio clip to use for the carrier, but the carrier could be a VST instrument as well if you have programmed MIDI that matches your audio material. In this configuration, we'll pass audio signals for both modulator and carrier. If you followed along using the tutorial project, the result should sound like this: There isn't any visual feedback in TAL-Vocoder except for a single clipping LED. You should now hear a vocoded harmony line.

Begin playback on a section of your project that loops your modulator and carrier tracks.

(If you are using a group channel in a Cubase project of your own, make sure that your modulator source's output is not routed to Cubase's 'Stereo Out,' because if it is, then you will always hear the raw modulator audio mixed in with TAL-Vocoder's outputs.)

In the Vocoder Internal Carrier demo project (or your own Cubase project), add TAL-Vocoder as an insert on the audio track or group channel you wish to use as your modulator.

The Vocoder Internal Carrier demo project in the tutorial projects download is already set up for this. This means we need an audio track or group channel to serve as the modulator (voice), and a MIDI track to play the carrier signal on the plugin's synth. In this configuration we'll use TAL-Vocoder's built-in synthesizer as the carrier.

The screenshots below use the Vocoder Tutorial Projects that you can download at the Ultimate Outsider Downloads page. We're going to take a look at two different configurations: One using TAL-Vocoder's built-in synth engine as the carrier, and another using an external carrier. This plugin only offers VST 2 format, not VST 3, meaning that configuring it for external carrier use is very different from what you do with Waldorf Lector or XILS V+.

While I'm not 100% certain, I think TAL-Vocoder might be the only free vocoder plugin that is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. TAL-Vocoder is a free vintage vocoder emulation produced by one of my favorite indie plugin publishers, Togu Audio Line.

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