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So, I wanted to be able to make the random semi-mechanical computer noises of the geth, and be able to make the voice of Legion, both from mass effect.
Both the sound at the start, and the vocal part, are made using the same synth and settings.
The first one is a vocoder where both carrier and modulator are the same source sound, and in the voice, it's the same vocoder, and the same carrier, but with an acapella modulator.
The carrier is a pitched, very low (bass and sub-bass level) Pulse wave, but with an ultra-fine pulse width, like 1/100th or less. I tediously did that with sytrus. My previous attempt was based on a video tutorial on youtube that used audacity's vocoder, using "Radar poles" as a carrier, and It worked reasonably well but couldn't be pitched, so I did a bit of research to find out what it is, and it turns out a "radar pole" is in this case, a single high frequency pulse, that includes most frequencies (pulses do), and just plays it like a popping sound. this clearly was what I needed, but I had to reverse engineer this in a pitch-able way in FL.
the vocoder used was Vocodex, with lots of custom settings. I made this a while ago, and have it saved as a preset for both sytrus and vocodex, so I can re-use this, but it is 100 bands, but I did something weird to it. It was ages ago AND i was half asleep at the time, which is weirdly when I do all my best work, that I can never seem to replicate.
I did all this because I wanted to make music with a voice that sounds like Legion in Mass effect 2, to be the vocals. I thought it would be kinda cool. ish.
The vocal acapella is "Laugh at life" by "Mayhem".
