Specifications

BV512 VOCODER
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Setting up for basic
vocoding
This tutorial describes how to connect and use a typical vocoder setup. We as-
sume here that you have a MIDI keyboard connected. For details on the param-
eters, see page 214.
1. Make sure there’s a MIxer device in the rack (with at least one free
channel).
2. Create the instrument device you want to use for the carrier signal.
This could typically be a synth or a sampler. In this example we choose a
Subtractor synthesizer.
3. Set up the carrier device for a sustaining, bright sound.
It’s important to have high frequencies in the carrier. On the Subtractor, a
simple but effective carrier sound would be based on a sawtooth wave, with
the filter fairly open. For more about choosing carrier sounds, see page 216.
4. Select the carrier device and create a BV512 Vocoder.
If you flip the rack around you will see that the Vocoder is automatically
routed as an insert effect for the carrier device (using the Carrier Input
jacks).
5. Press [Shift] and create the instrument device you want to use for
the modulator signal.
Pressing [Shift] will add the device without auto-routing it to a mixer - this
makes sense since we want to route it to the Vocoder in this case.
For a modulator device you would typically either want a sampler (with vo-
cals or speech samples), a drum machine or a Dr.Rex device (with vocal or
rhythmic loops). For simplicity we use a Dr.Rex device in this example.
6. Flip the rack around and route the output of the Dr.Rex to the Mod-
ulator Input jack on the BV512.
7. On the BV512 Vocoder, turn the Dry/Wet knob fully to the left
(“dry”).
This will let you hear the unprocessed sound of the modulator device only - useful for the
next step:
8. Load a loop into the Dr.Rex device and click the Preview button to
start playback.
For example, you could simply choose one of the Dr.Rex Drum Loops in the
Factory Sound Bank.
9. Turn the Dry/Wet knob on the vocoder fully to the right (“wet”).
Now you won’t hear anything - since there is no carrier signal.
Carrier
Vocoder
Modulator