New Orange Vocoder for Audio Units Realesed Today

Blacklisted · Post by **Blacklisted** » Tue May 20, 2008 3:44 pm

Good news everyone. Prosoniq has released it's new Anniversary Addition of the Orange Vocoder for Audio Units compatibility. Just FYI...

toodamnhip · Post by **toodamnhip** » Tue May 20, 2008 4:54 pm

give us a link mate

blue · Post by **blue** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:04 pm

toodamnhip wrote:give us a link mate

http://www.google.com/

Blacklisted · Post by **Blacklisted** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:07 pm

Here's the link. My apologies for not posting it previously.

http://www.prosoniq.com/main/orangevocoder10ae/

David Polich · Post by **David Polich** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:09 pm

http://www.prosoniq.com

David Polich · Post by **David Polich** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:41 pm

I just checked it out. Danger Will Robinson on this one, at least on my setup which is a PPC Dual 2.3Ghz running OSX 10.4.11.

This new version of Orange Vocoder is apparently a Cocoa-based app. If you're running DP 5.13 in Tiger, the interface shows up as that plain Apple AU interface.

Which would be okay, except that for some reason when I place OV on a mono track as a mono-to-stereo plug, I get a "you need at least two inputs" dialog box and DP then crashes. Not good...

There is no mono version, only mono-to-stereo and stereo.

This is enough for me to ditch it for now, seeing as the main reason I'd want it is to run it on vocals. Maybe someone else on an Intel Mac and Leopard will have better luck?

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msmith92 · Post by **msmith92** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:57 pm

would this give me that pink floyd "animals" effect. where his voice mixes into the moog note? i think the song is called sheep.

aizo · Post by **aizo** » Wed May 21, 2008 6:55 am

i couldn't get it to work at all and some of the plug isn't even displayed on my tiny macbook's 13" screen

Blacklisted · Post by **Blacklisted** » Wed May 21, 2008 10:59 am

I wonder, if you are using the crossgrade version of OV, does it totally delete the previous version?

David Polich · Post by **David Polich** » Wed May 21, 2008 4:54 pm

I sent an e-mail to prosoniq tech support, and they replied this morning. They're going to look into the issues - don't know when they'll get a fix for things.

hellcat · Post by **hellcat** » Thu May 22, 2008 3:08 am

169 Euros is a lot of money for something you will only use as an efx.... how often would anyone use this, unless you are in Kraftwerk or play with Laurie Anderson (who plays alone!)..... they need to drop the price and make sure the bugs are gone, then it might be of interest to more people. Right now, I'll pass.

aizo · Post by **aizo** » Thu May 22, 2008 9:16 am

hellcat wrote:169 Euros is a lot of money for something you will only use as an efx.... how often would anyone use this, unless you are in Kraftwerk or play with Laurie Anderson (who plays alone!)..... they need to drop the price and make sure the bugs are gone, then it might be of interest to more people. Right now, I'll pass.

+1 on that. 200 some bucks is too much for something like that.

mhschmieder · Post by **mhschmieder** » Thu May 29, 2008 5:19 pm

I couldn't get it to work either, but maybe it needs an Intel Mac (I forgot to check)? The earlier attempt gave me a much older version that was VST-only.

This is a very different vocoder from the one that Eiosis makes (which is based on the old EMS high-end vocoders). I find the ELS Vocoder is ideal for that grungy analog vocoder sound, with Orange perhaps coming in handy for those wanting a more modern or experimental sound (though I couldn't get Orange to produce a sound that I liked, so I must be a fuddy-duddy that only wants classic/vintage sounds). The ELS is very smooth but can be pushed pretty hard. I found Orange trickier to work with in terms of clipping/etc.