Character: voice transformation
Module 11 of 14 · Voice character
- One Move knobCharacter
- Latency0.67 ms
- CPU, iPad Air M32.4 %
- Default position11 of 14, after Tube
Character changes who is singing: another gender or age, a giant, a monster, a robot, a vocoder or a whisper. Pick a patch with ◂ ▸ and turn the knob from your own voice to the full effect. Pitch and voice size move independently, so an octave down still sounds like a person.
Hear it
Character patches
One vocal through four patches. Low Harmony blends a lower, darker copy of the singer under the dry voice (a fifth down with a sub octave, Mix at 65 %). Then Giant, Robot and Radio. Before and after are set to the same loudness, so you hear the change, not a level jump.
"Lost_Pella" by queeniemusic (ccmixter.org/files/queeniemusic/65508), licensed CC BY 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0). Excerpt, processed by OneMove Vocal Console.
The One Move: Character
The knob morphs from your own voice (0) to the full patch (10). The ◂ ▸ keys under it pick the patch. Picking a patch sets the Voice and Texture controls in Expert.
The 28 patches: Male → Female, Female → Male, Child, Teen, Elderly, Giant, Monster, Ogre, Demon, Chipmunk, Elf, Robot, Retro Vocoder, Machine Voice, Alien, Radio, Megaphone, Whisper, Choir Double, Octave Down, Robot Disco Vocoder, Dark Down Grit, Talkbox-ish, Telephone Lo-Fi, Deep Narrator, Doubled Wide Robot, Ethereal Choir and Low Harmony.
Expert
| control | what it does |
|---|---|
| Pitch | ±24 semitones |
| Formant | ±12 semitones: moves the voice size separately from pitch (down = bigger, up = smaller) |
| Follow | how closely the new voice follows your melody; at 0 it sings on the Robot Note |
| Robot Note | the fixed note for robot voices |
| Breath, Grit | breathiness, and the roughness of an older or rougher voice |
| Unvoiced Pass | keeps s, t and breath unshifted, so words stay clear |
| Carrier | Voice, or Saw, Pulse or Noise to resynthesise it (robot, vocoder, whisper) |
| Sub Octave | adds a voice an octave below |
| Mix | blends your own voice back in |
Each patch also carries fixed extras where it needs them: EQ, ring modulation, an LFO, unison and drive.
Specs
| Latency | 0.67 ms in both modes, so it works live |
| Level | the new voice is level-matched to yours |
| CPU, iPad Air M3, only Character on | 2.4 % of one core |
FAQ
Can I sound like the opposite gender?
Yes: start with Male → Female or Female → Male, then fine-tune Pitch and Formant. A convincing result usually needs the formant moved less than the pitch.
Can I use it as a vocoder?
Yes. Retro Vocoder and Robot resynthesise the voice with a saw or pulse carrier through a 16-band vocoder. Set Follow to 0 and play the Robot Note for a fixed-pitch robot.