Viru TI Snow Vocoder
 

Hello everyone!! I'm new to the Virus products and purchased a Snow a few weeks back and I've been Infekted by Infekted.org and the Snow with endless nights without sleep and loving it ;). Just recently asked for some help from Access on how to utilize the Snow's vocoder. Great customer service I must say. I will post the reply here because I couldn't find any info here on the forum. I hope this helps anyone else that was in my shoes. :) Take care everyone and enjoy!! I used this with a motif as a controller via midi and a small preamp to boost my signal from the mic into the Snow's RIGHT/MONO input with and without a sequencing program and I used the "INIT Mulit" from mulimode from bank 2-2 on

To use the Virus TI SNOW Vocoder please go on like this:

- select an 'init" patch in your Virus TI Snow Control PlugIn
- make sure you got a signal coming through the analog inputs of the Virus TI SNOW
(you can easily check that by going to the TI Snow Control "FX" page and changing the INPUT Mode from "Off" to "Static" - if you hear an audio signal then, then everything is set up correctly - switch back the INPUT again to "Off" after checking that)
- now activate the Vocoder (press the Edit button in the distortion section twice and scroll with the parameter buttons until you see Vocoder 1/4) and set its mode to "Oscillator" or "Osc Hold"
- move both SPREAD parameters completely to the right
- move the CENTER parameter to its middle position
- now hold down a chord on your masterkeyboard or send notes to the TI via your sequencer
-> you now should hear the vocoded audio signal

Now you can start from there and change oscillator settings, etc. to create a unique vocoder sound.

can you post a soundsample how your patch sounds? or even the patch?

Here is a funny song i did for my sister's birthday messing around with the snow's sounds and vocoder.;) Kind of corny but the effort is what counts. Here is the youtube link to the snippet i posted because I don't know how to post audio sample on the forum. Take care.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOJjcST_13s

sry. but that sounds a bit crappy!

I think it's cute. Long live experimentation aka messing around :)

:) Long live experimentation!! I hope the post helped.:)