Roland VT-4 adds MIDI, control for performer-friendly vocal FX

Roland’s revised VT-4 – the replacement for the first AIRA VT-3 – makes it look like someone finally gets what vocalists want in effects. More effects options, actual control over harmony, and MIDI could make all the difference.

This tool lets you play all those popular vocal hooks like a keyboard

No, it’s not quite Millennial Whoop: the VST. But Output’s latest, Hooked, makes a whole trove of popular pop vocal elements playable like an instrument.

Peter Kirn - September 25, 2018

iZotope adds modeling features to Vocal Synth, makes a creative bundle

Singing – it’s the simple most important human instrument, but it’s too often overlooked in technology. iZotope has doubled up on innovations there with Vocal Synth 2 – and in case you haven’t been keeping track, they’ve bundled all their production tools together into the new Creative Suite.

Peter Kirn - May 10, 2018

Humans can mimic machines, too; look out, AutoTune

Peter Kirn - September 21, 2017

SX on how they make electronic gospel so good it “Hurts”

Peter Kirn - April 1, 2016

This Computer Singing 90s Love Ballads will Break Your Heart

Peter Kirn - July 16, 2015

The Joy of Little Boxes, and Lovely Music by Recue x Jolea

Peter Kirn - May 5, 2015

Fake Your Own Lord of the Rings with an All-Elven Software Instrument

- December 16, 2014

Listen: Greg Gives Peter Space, Intimate Vocals Meet Live, Spacey Sound [CDM Presents]

- April 14, 2014

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