The Instrument

Alien Vocoder is a spectral altar disguised as a VST3 plugin. It dismantles the harmonic content of any sound you feed it and rebuilds it on a tunable pitch grid — the same thing a classical analog vocoder does, only weirder, sharper, and far more transparent when you want it to be. Talk into it; sing into it; route a synth, a snare, an entire mix through it. What comes back out is the same sound, possessed.

Inside, a phase-vocoder analysis stage tracks every spectral component of your input frame by frame. A bank of internal sine carriers — locked to a user-defined musical scale — is then modulated by those analysis envelopes, so the input's shape is imposed onto the altar's pitches. From this base architecture grows everything else: warp curves that bend the scale into non-Euclidean intervals, smear that lets each syllable bloom into a drone, an LFO bank with a quantized stair waveform that can modulate four parameters at once, and a built-in pitch-stutter that captures and replays chunks at any frequency from sub-bass to ultrasonic. There is a TRANS knob that doesn't blend dry-and-wet so much as it slowly transmutes the former into the latter.

The Knobs

• BANDS2 to 64 carrier tones. Low counts read as cyborg, high counts as choir.
• ROOTLowest pitch on the grid. Everything else stacks above.
• INTERVALSpacing between grid pitches in semitones. 1 = chromatic, 7 = stacked fifths, 0.5 = quartertones.
• WARPNon-linear bend of the upper grid. Negative stretches; positive compresses.
• SMEARAsymmetric envelope follower. At zero it's snappy; at max each syllable hangs as a metallic drone.
• LFO RATE0.01 to 40 Hz. The clock for any modulation routes you arm.
• LFO TYPESine on the left, square at center, 64-step quantized stair on the right. Continuously morphable.
• PITCHGranular pitch-stutter. 0 to 8 kHz. Low values stutter rhythmically; high values resonate.
• TRANSSpectral morph between dry input and full carrier-bank synthesis. The S-curve makes 75% of the right-side travel pure alien.
• OUTPUT−24 to +12 dB final gain. TRANS smoothly anchors the output back to unity as you bring it down.

Architecture

Acquisition

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