Heavy Metal 'growling' vocoder
Hi guys,
New to the forum, and getting familiar with MAX again.
I am curious about FFTs and how I can use it (or others) to produce a ‘growling’ effect akin to what a heavy metal singer is able to.
I have played around with a few things and what I have come up with is to use a noise signal to modulate an incoming signal to produce a fairly gruff sounding effect.
This effect is not close enough to the result of a heavy metal growl as I would like it to be.
I’m new to using FFT, I don’t quite understand how to make sense of the values, or what arguments it takes.
If some one with the a bit of generosity that doesn’t have a zero-sum personality would be willing to help I would greatly appreciate it.
Please feel free to ask me to give more details if there is any question about what I am trying to accomplish! :)
Have you tried using other signals other than noise? What about "growly" sounds? Motor bike engine perhaps? A short sample of someone downing the growling you want to emulate?
Hi Commanthe,
Yes I have actually used a seamless loop of a person who can growl quite well as the modulator and as you may expect it sounds precisely like the noise signal modulation with the addition of a bandpass (due to the human formant).
Growling is by nature a chaotic signal with high dynamic range, which is precisely what noise is.
The information I seek is perhaps similar to a lot of other FFT vocoders that take many steps in producing their intended result.
I am looking to expand my knowledge of using FFT to vocode and looking beyond just the simple multiplication of 2 samples amplitudes to produce an effect.
I need more information on how one signal can be used to modify another in either the frequency domain or amplitude domain (or ways to combine them differently)