Version 2 is Here!
NOTE: This program is no longer being supported. This page is mainly for historical interest. Don't send
us any email about running the program.
Now, you too can sound like the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica, and make
music as cool as Kraftwerk (well, that part's up to you...) with the new
18 Channel Vocoder program from CYLONIX. This Windows 95 program is a digital
emulation of the great analog filter bank vocoders of days gone by.
It uses the computational power of Intel Pentium CPUs along with the audio
interface capabilities of Creative Labs SoundBlaster boards to bring
the joy of vocoding to the masses.
As seen in the January 1998 issue of Future Music Magazine, and the
September 1998 issue of Keyboard Magazine!
18 Filter Channels
Level and Pan Control For Each Channel
Internal Pulse, Chord, and Noise Generators
External Input Capability
Graphical Display of Spectrum Energy
Spectral Shifting
Spectral Randomization
Spectral Inversion
Graphical Control of Spectrum Mapping
18 Channel Graphic Equalizer Mode
Spectrum Sample and Hold
Spectrum Hold Mode
Voiced/Unvoiced Detection
Sibilance Feedthrough
Pitch Tracker
3 Filter Bandwidth Settings
Recording and Saving of Output (wav fmt)
Use of WAV File Sounds as Vocoder Input
Spectrum Enhancement and Smoothing
Individual Channel Distortion
Individual Channel Delay
Individual Channel Echo
Individual Channel Expansion/Compression
Individual Channel Slew Rate Control
MIDI Controller Support
MIDI Control of Pulse Frequency
Pulse Width Control
Slaving of Sliders to a Single Slider
Here are various wav files demonstrating some of the great sounds that the CYLONIX vocoder can create:
Basic pulse input - cyxdemo1.wav
Major chord pulse - cyxdemo2.wav
Chord, shifted up - cyxdemo3.wav
Narrow band filter - cyxdemo4.wav
Unvoiced detector - cyxdemo5.wav
Pitch Tracker - cyxdemo6.wav
Spectrum sample/Hold - cyxdemo7.wav
Randomized spectrum - cyxdemo8.wav
Yodel (Freq. mod.) - cyxdemo9.wav
External input (Elec. Guitar) - cyxdemoA.wav
Channel Distortion - metal.wav
Channel Slew Rate - soft.wav
Channel Delay - wet.wav
Channel Echo - echo.wav
Ghost - ghost.wav
Please note: If you have a Cyrix CPU chances are the program will not function properly. It is my belief that this is due to the Cyrix Floating Point Processor unit not having the performance neccessary for the vocoder program, which uses floating points operations heavily.
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