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I have a new toy off ebay



Electrix WarpFactory Vocoder
Designed for both DJs and Musicians, the Warp Factory is possibly the ultimate stand-alone Vocoder. With those great big knobs, the Warp Factory is designed for straight-forward hands-on use. It has an XLR Mic input (conveniently located on the front) and a quarter-inch line input for use as the Formant or carrier signals. Then there are two quarter-inch line-inputs and two RCA phono inputs for your stereo source sounds, either drum loops, mixes, songs, synth pads, etc...
The way it works is whatever Formant signal you have, say your voice, will be warped into taking on the characteristic of the Source signal you have, say a buzzy synth sound. This would in effect give you that Robot voice effect.
The Warp section is where you'll find most of the knobs and cool features of the Warp. There is a low- and high-pass filtering switch. A 'Gender' knob adjusts the pitch of the Formant. 'Q' adjusts the width of the filtering. An 'Order' adjusts the filter resolution for clear to abstract vocoding effects. There is also Noise and a built-in oscillator Source signal whose pitch is adjusted by 'Robot Pitch'. Various Bypass and Freeze switches and complete MIDI implementation make this the ultimate Vocoder for DJs, musicians and producers. It has been used by U2, John Digweed, United State of Electronica and the Chemical Brothers.



I know its close but not true cylon, something to play with

Sounds more like a robotic creature than a Cylon. Plus where do you carry that thing, and how do you power it. Cylon plugged into the wall?....

Its about 10 pounds in weight, cast aluminum , uses 110 volt wall power. It wont fit in the backpack. And need a good amp to sound good, I need to find my pevay tube amp

I think I mentioned in another thread that I also work in theater, one of the reasons I got it.

Well, I tried using F.L.Studio 9's Vocodex Vocoder and had a pretty decent outcome using the saw wave for the carrier and my own voice for the modulation...

I repeat the phrase 4 times in this video and the second and 4th time (ESPECIALLY the 4th) when i say "designation" it sounds EERILY spot on! (I adjusted settings on each of the different phrases).

I made this about a year ago and used it to page a maintenance worker over the intercom at work, LOL!
I say "Maintenance Atamoton, designation, Raybourn, please report to Line 2"...




I did this as a joke because our maintenance workers acted like robots, showing no emotion and even once I thanked them for doing a good job and they both stood up, turned around, and walked off like soldiers and didn't speak a word or even look at me.. They reminded me of programmed robots!

Sounds very close to me... good job!