Hi, 

I've been fiddling around creating a nice vocoder type sound.  I made an
orchestra which simply filters two signals into thinnish bands and
balances one against the other.  My choice of what bands to use has so far
been pretty much based on a 'try-it-and-see' philosophy.  In the end I
built a cheap n cheerful interface in VB4 which runs under win95.  If
anyone wants to grab a copy I've made it publicly ftpable at

ftp://128.243.101.213/pub/vocode.zip.  

If you don't have VB4 on your machine you'll probably need to download a 
couple of extra files that are in the directory.. try running the program 
and see what dll's, ocx's it asks for, and then see if I've put them in 
the /pub directory.  If you need a file that isn't there.. mail me and 
I'll put it in.

The interface just gives you 16 sets of sliders for changing the bands and
bandwidths (two sets for each channel so you can map a band in one sample
to a different band in the other).  Output is a Csound score and orchestra
and, if you tell it where csound lives, it'll make the output file and
play it to you.  It's a bit shoddy, but it works and I've had quite a bit
of fun with it, so I thought I'd let someone else play :)

Matt.

ps.  If you do have a go with it.. PLEASE mail me and let me know, bug 
reports and comments appreciated.

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