Van Moose Audio
Vocoder / Talkbox

ROBOT

v1.0.0-beta — beta · Standalone + AU · macOS Apple Silicon

ROBOT
vocoder
Voice
0.50
Tone
0.50
Mode
0.00
Mix
1.00

Drone through ROBOT — turn it synthetic via DRY|ROBOT; MODE morphs vocoder → talkbox

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v1.0.0-beta — What's new ▾
  • Turn any signal robotic — a 16-band channel vocoder with a built-in carrier (single input: the carrier is generated internally, the input is the modulator)
  • Per band: bandpass the input → envelope follower → multiply the same band of the internal carrier, then sum the carrier bands
  • CARRIER is an internal rich saw + detuned-saw drone + sub pulse; VOICE sets its pitch (55 → 220 Hz) and brightness
  • MODE: one continuous morph from Vocoder (the filterbank) → Talkbox (a swept resonant-formant mouth) for a tighter, vowel-like character
  • TONE tilts brightness / formant; a little high-band passthrough of the input keeps consonants intelligible
  • Best on voiced / tonal input — on drums or noise it gets gnarly, which is the character. No sidechain in v1: the carrier is internal
  • Bit-exact dry at MIX 0

Requirements

  • macOS 13 Ventura or later
  • Apple Silicon (arm64) — Intel / Windows coming later
  • ✅ Standalone app (ROBOT.app) — pitched drone test tone
  • ✅ AU (Audio Unit v3) — GarageBand, Logic Pro, REAPER, Ableton Live

Install

  • AU → ~/Applications (open ROBOT.app once to register)

Gatekeeper

Not notarized yet. Run once:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/ROBOT.app
Windows version

At 100 votes we build VET for Windows — FL Studio, Ableton, Reaper.

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ROBOT — Vocoder / Talkbox | Van Moose Audio