Vocalize your vision.
- A fun-to-use MIDI-controlled effect with an inspiring workflow and Softube-quality sound
- Featuring a six-voice polyphonic carrier synth with four selectable waveforms
- Great for vintage vocoder sounds as well as creative experimentation
Developed by Bell Labs and used by the military to obscure voiced messages during World War II, the vocoder has had a clandestine foothold in music culture since the 1970s. With subtlety, or not, the vocoder appears on a parade of favorites from Electric Light Orchestra and Imogen Heap to Daft Punk and Herbie Hancock.
With Softube sound quality and workflow, Vocoder delivers the sensations of vintage machines. A built-in six-voice carrier synth with MIDI capability and an easy-to-use Attack Hold Decay Envelope, plus a visionary Freeze section, mean that you’re in for an array of sonic spectacle and revelry. Which is to say, you’re gonna have a real good time.
The Art of Rock & Roll Science
When it comes to creating equipment that improves workflow and offers the highest quality sound, our reputation is rock solid—and long. Our partnerships with premium brands like Marshall, Buchla, Doepfer, Mutronics, and OTO go back nearly twenty years.
Softube Vocoder is built on this legacy of creativity, passion, and attention to detail. Because to create tools that innovate, you have to have heart, soul, and Rock & Roll Science.
In short
- The look and feel of vintage vocoding with Softube innovations
- High-quality Softube sound, excellent shaping tools, and an inspiring workflow
- A superb six-voice polyphonic carrier synth with four selectable waveforms and MIDI capability
- An easy-to-use Attack Hold Decay Envelope
- Transpose Chord Mode lets you create a chord with the on-screen keyboard and then transpose it via MIDI Notes
- Control of plosive and high-frequency consonant sound reproduction via the Unvoiced section
- Stereo widening that adjusts the amount of spread between even and odd bands
- Spectral Tilt to swiftly set the spectral weight of the vocoder output
- Variable band selection between 4, 8, 12, 16, and 20 bands
- Unique Freeze section that allows rhythmic hold of certain formants manually and via MIDI Notes or a DAW Sync
- Shape section that controls slop of resynthesis and Emphasis section to manage the response of each band
- Add subtle vibrato to dramatic wobble effects with the Pitch Modulation section
Product features
- 6 Voice Polyphonic Carrier Synth
- 4 Waveforms: sawtooth, square, white noise, and pulse
- Controlled polyphonically via MIDI or set to hold pultiple notes in the Transpose Chord mode
- Selectable bandpass filters of 4, 8, 12, 16, and 20
- Control of emphasis (resonance), tilt (favoring of high vs low bands), and shape (speed) of the filters in the Resynthesis Control section
System requirements
- macOS Big Sur 11, Monterey 12, Ventura 13
- Windows 10 (64-bit), Windows 11
- Softube account
- iLok account
- Computer with AU, VST, VST3 and/or AAX compatible DAW host software
- Internet access (for downloading installers and managing licenses)