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Agreed! Also, context matters. How and where you’re listening matters.

Thank you! What are you working on? Sounds interesting.

Yes! Not sure how many times I’ve watched that, but I will watch it at least once every time someone posts it.

Yeah, owning their masters was a very smart move. I was surprised they rented the Sennheiser instead of buying one. Having said that, they don’t come up for sale very often.

Ah, cheers! I’m in Australia, and it seems like Alto won’t ship here. I’m sure they’ll appear on a store that does ship to me soon.

Thank you!

I feel like that’s a theme for Arturia’s plugins. I have their 1176 compressor and some other stuff. They’re nice, but use tons of CPU and can be a bit flaky at times.

Did you buy one? I think it’s very likely I’ll get a VC16, but they’re not in stock anywhere I purchase from yet.

You may already know this, but Junkie XL/Tom Holkenborg has done some great film soundtracks, too.

Awesome! That would have been so good. I saw them just once — the Alive 2007 tour. Was a great day.

I really, really like Human After All. It’s probably their second most cohesive album, given how much they used the DigiTech Talker and DigiTech Synth Wah all over it. (Second to R…

Yeah, there’s a few, and I probably should have included more plugins. I don’t mind the built in Ableton vocoder. The built in Logic Pro one is a bit average. I like the XILS 201 p…

Thanks! I’ll give it a listen. Number of bands doesn’t necessarily dictate the quality of results — the Electro-Harmonix V256 has 256 bands, and it’s not even in the top 5 out of t…

We’re working hard on it! It’s going to be good. There’s some more info on this page: https://bjango.com/mac/skala/ Thanks. :)

Thanks for the talk link! I’m going to try writing some harmonizer code next, so your video is right up my alley. I believe IVL’s algorithm also isn’t FFT-based. That makes sense, …

Yep, I’ve read that as well. The workflow and sound of the VP-9000 make me think it’s not what they used. It’s just so cumbersome to use, and it sounds pretty bad, and to my ears d…

The Oblivion soundtrack is amazing! Love it. I’ve listened to it so many times. I haven’t seen the movie yet. I should do that.

There’s rumours they’re working on more material. I wouldn’t blame them for telling the world they’ve broken up, just to take the pressure off. I can live in hope, right?

That gives me something to research! I’ve only scratched the surface of IVL’s algorithm, but intend to look into it further.

Yep! The Sennheiser and Ultimate VoIS are in their own league. There are some other rare high-end analogue vocoders that I would have loved to include in the comparison, but I don’…

Absolutely. Hopefully there’s at least one more.

Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it

Did you listen to the example audio in the video? Soft synths and digital emulation can be absolutely amazing these days, but the VSM201 and Ultimate VoIS are in their own league. …

Kai Krause wrote the VSM201 manual and helped sell it at Sennheiser?! You’re blowing my mind. I didn’t expect that info today.

Thank you! Your kind comment helps. :)