Good morning Mathias :)

> What you need for a vocoder are at least to inputs. Some use the 2 stereo
> inputs as single inputs. The vocoders, which are really useful (like
> vocovee) generate the tuning tones from a midi input, so they have a
> little synth inside. For qtractor, that means that you'll have to feed 2
> audio streams (or 1 midi and 1 audio stream) into a plugin strip.
>
> I think, Auto-Tune will never replace a vocoder. That's something
> completely different: A vocoder uses the frequency spectrum of one signal
> and filters another signal with the inverse of it. Autotune pitches the
> incoming frequencies to new ones...

I know. With a vocoder we quasi can give a guitar the envelope of a 
drum, but especially for "talking" instruments even stand alone multi 
band hardware vocoders can be a PITA, while Auto-Tune can make vocals 
sound like a talking instrument very easy. I guess also a guitar pitched 
by Auto-Tune can make the guitar sound like a guitar synth, but without 
the annoying latency guitar synth do have for the low strings. Just 
theoretical spoken, because I never used Auto-Tune, but I used a vocoder 
at home and played guitar synth in music stores. I guess a talkbox is a 
good alternative for my needs, but I don't like to tinker one and I 
don't want to have a flexible tube in the mouth. For Windows I've got a 
good vocoder that is using single audio channels, I guess this is needed 
to modify the EQs for the "carrier or better modulating signal" and for 
the "modulated signal" independently. Btw. for guitar there are very 
good filters available that make a guitar sound like a synth, e.g. 
Native Instrument's guitar rig, but I don't know something similar for 
Linux, resp. I guess Phasex is able to use any input instead of it's own 
oscillators, I still need to test if this is fine for usage with a guitar.
Maybe I'll test the possibilities of autotalent or Phasex today. And I 
guess there are some vocoders for Linux, I still need to test them too.
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