We all love the sound of the vocoder. But which are the best vocoder VST plugins available today? We show you below the top vocoder plugins (free & paid).
Vocoder by Softube (Paid)
Softube Vocoder delivers the sensations of vintage machines with Softube sound quality and workflow. A built-in six-voice carrier synth with MIDI capability and an easy-to-use Attack Hold Decay Envelope, plus a visionary Freeze section, mean that you’re in for an array of sonic spectacle and revelry. Which is to say, you’re gonna have a real good time.
Features
- The look and feel of vintage vocoding with Softube innovations
- High-quality Softube sound, excellent shaping tools, and an inspiring workflow
- A superb six-voice polyphonic carrier synth with four selectable waveforms and MIDI capability
- An easy-to-use Attack Hold Decay Envelope
- Transpose Chord Mode lets you create a chord with the on-screen keyboard and then transpose it via MIDI Notes
- Control of plosive and high-frequency consonant sound reproduction via the Unvoiced section
- Stereo widening that adjusts the amount of spread between even and odd bands
- Spectral Tilt to swiftly set the spectral weight of the vocoder output
- Variable band selection between 4, 8, 12, 16, and 20 bands
- Unique Freeze section that allows rhythmic hold of certain formants manually and via MIDI Notes or a DAW Sync
- Shape section that controls slop of resynthesis and Emphasis section to manage the response of each band
- Add subtle vibrato to dramatic wobble effects with the Pitch Modulation section
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Vocodex Vocoder by Image Line (Paid)
Vocodex is simply one of the best sounding vocoders on the market today. Try the demo and hear why Vocodex is the last word in vocoding.
Features
- Speech enhancement contouring of noise or modulator pass-through.
- Modulator noise reduction to reduce ambient noise bleeding through carrier.
- Voice doubling and reverb capabilities.
- Built-in Soundgoodizer for limiting and warm output.
- Up to 100 bands individually locatable anywhere in the spectrum.
- Band unison to create a fat & lush sound.
- Sidechain carrier & or modulator input.
- Inbuilt carrier synthesizer powered by Sytrus.
- & more per-band effects to discover…
- only compatible with Windows operating systems.
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MVocoder Vocoder by MeldaProduction (Paid)
Robotic voices, singing synthesizers, morphing between multiple audio materials. That’s MVocoder, a vocoder with ultimate audio quality and extreme range of features as usual.
Features
- The most advanced user interface on the market – stylable, resizable, GPU accelerated
- Unique visualisation engine with classic meters and time graphs
- exceptionally versatile modulators
- Adjustable oscillator shape technology
- 4 multiparameters
- M/S, single channel, up to 8 channels surround processing…
- Smart randomisation
- Automatic gain compensation (AGC)
- Safety limiter
- Adjustable up-sampling 1x-16x
- MIDI controllers with MIDI learn
- Very fast, optimised for SSE/SSE2/SSE3 processors
- Global preset management and online preset exchange
- Supports VST, VST3, AU and AAX interfaces on Windows & Mac, both 32-bit and 64-bit
- No dongle nor internet access is required for activation
- Free-for-life updates
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RoCoder Vocoder by Rob Papen (Paid)
The RoCoder name is very close to that of the original Vocoders given title. However, as always with – Rob Papen – products you will find that there are many new and creative features onboard, so don’t expect a regular Vocoder!
Alongside a 32-band Vocoder, RoCoder also features an Additive mode, a combined Vocoder + Additive mode, Noise mode, Tuned Noise mode, and a Tuned Comb mode!
These new modes allow you to create many new types of sound next to the top-notch Vocoder sound!
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Vocoder V Vocoder by Arturia (Paid)
Vocoder V takes the iconic 16-Band Vocoder and retrofits it with advanced synth, sampler, and modulation capabilities. Venture beyond the classic robot voice with a sound that truly speaks for itself.
Features
- 16 channel Vocoder virtual-analogue modelling
- Integrated Synth Section: Dual-oscillator with FM, Waveshaping capabilities, Hard sync and fixed frequencies options, Chord and glide features, Stereo enhancing “ensemble” function.
- External voice input with pitch tracking feature
- Integrated Sample Player Engine: Cycle and keyboard play modes to play back up to 12 samples, 700+ included factory samples, Time-stretching to sync loops in bars to DAW bpm
- Vocoder bands rerouting from patch bay
- Advanced modulation capabilities (envelope follower, LFO and controls assignment)
- 11 integrated effect types (Reverb Phaser, Flanger, Chorus, Overdrive, Delay, …)
- Advanced Brightness, Timbre, Time and Movement macro controls
- Over 250 factory presets
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La Voz Cantante Vocoder by MV’s Plugins (Free)
An FFT-based 1024-channel vocoder. The modulator input – usually a sung or simply spoken voice – is analyzed with respect to its spectral content, which is then applied to the other sound source. The latter may be any externally supplied signal ranging from pink noise, synth pads, guitar, or even drums. Alternatively, there is an internal, MIDI-driven synth that is optimized for best speech reproduction fidelity. You can blend the high frequencies with noise for natural-sounding sibilants. There is also a noise gate, a compressor, and a stereo reverb onboard.
Features
- FFT based 1024-channel vocoder.
- Stereo inputs for carrier and modulator, respectively.
- Optional MIDI input to drive internal synth as carrier.
- Polyphony with unlimited number of voices.
- Up to three voices per note with adjustable relative detuning and stereo width.
- Octave, semitone and fine tuning controls.
- Option of noise blending for improved sibilant formation.
- Built-in modulator noise gate with indicator.
- Built-in soft knee limiter with color-coded LED indicator.
- Built-in stereo reverb.
- Master volume control with output clipping indicator.
- LED indicators for inputs and outputs for quick check of signal routing.
- FFT based 1024-channel vocoder.
- Stereo inputs for carrier and modulator, respectively.
- Optional MIDI input to drive internal synth as carrier.
- Polyphony with unlimited number of voices.
- Up to three voices per note with adjustable relative detuning and stereo width.
- Octave, semitone and fine tuning controls.
- Option of noise blending for improved sibilant formation.
- Built-in modulator noise gate with indicator.
- Built-in soft knee limiter with color-coded LED indicator.
- Built-in stereo reverb.
- Master volume control with output clipping indicator.
- LED indicators for inputs and outputs for quick check of signal routing.
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TAL-Vocoder Vocoder by TAL (Free)
TAL-Vocoder is a vintage vocoder emulation with 11 bands that emulates the sound of vocoders from the early 80’s. It includes analog modeled components in combination with digital algorithms such as the SFFT (Short-Time Fast Fourier Transform). This vocoder does not make a direct convolution of the carrier and modulation signal as other digital vocoders maybe do. It includes an envelope follower for every of the eleven bands. This vocoder is optimized for voice processing and includes some algorithms for consonants to make the voice more intelligible.
The carrier signal is a VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator) with a Pulse, Saw, Noise and SubOsc. But it’s also possible to use the left stereo input as carrier. This way every sound source can be used as carrier signal. This plug-in supports every sample rate.
Features
- 11 band vocoder engine.
- Internal carrier synth (pulse, saw, sub osc, noise, mono, poly, portamento, sync mode, tune).
- Possiblity to route an external carrier signal.
- Harmonic control (adds more harmonics to any carrier signal)
- “Ess” enhancer for a clean understandable voice, also with a carrier that hasnt much high frequencies.
- Clip LED, glows if the input signal will be clipped.
- Panic button stopps hanging notes within the synth.
- Documentation shows different routing possiblities.
- Low CPU usage.
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