TAL-Vocoder

TAL-Vocoder is a lightweight and efficient piece of software functioning as an VST plugin that mimics 80s’ style vocoders, enabling you to integrate that type of sound into your music with just a few knob turns and slider moves.

In order to install the tool, you need to copy the DLL file from the decompressed archive, into the plugin folder of your VST host, then possibly restart it in order for it to be able to detect the utility.

TAL-Vocoder features eleven different bands to allow you to reproduce vintage sounds, offering both modeled and analog functions, along with several digital algorithms that you can use, for instance Short-Time Fast Fourier Transform.

The panel that represents the plugin’s interface provides you with an ‘Input’ button, and when it is pressed, it lets you automatically configure the left input source as carrier, while the right one is set as modulator, in the case of stereo systems. However, any sound source can serve as carrier, be it left or right.

TAL-Vocoder’s internal carrier synthesizer offers several features in the shape of movable knobs, for instance ‘Saw’, ‘Tune’, ‘Sync Mode’, ‘Portamento’, ‘Noise’, ‘Poly’, or ‘Mono'. Moreover, you have the option of routing the signal of an external carrier into the host.

The plugin features an ‘Ess’ enhancer which aims to provide the voice of a potential speaker with more clarity, making the person’s speech easier to comprehend' this can useful particularly when there is an insufficient amount of overtones on the used carrier.