BILL HOLLAND: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. My name is Bill Holland and we’re in Logic looking at a plugin called the Vocal Transformer. I’ve got a sound clip here loaded up that I’m going to play back with a dry signal. You’ll see I bypassed it right now.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SOUND CLIP IN APPLE LOGIC PRO WITH THE VOCAL TRANSFORMER BYPASSED]

Now, Vocal Transformer works similar to a basic vocoder. Right now I can either modify the actual voice itself or use Robot Eyes to modulate the voice. To play it back real quick just by taking the pitch down a little bit and changing up the formant...

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SOUND CLIP IN APPLE LOGIC PRO WITH THE VOCAL TRANSFORMER BYPASSED AND THEN ENGAGED]

...and then take the formant up.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SOUND CLIP IN APPLE LOGIC PRO WITH THE VOCAL TRANSFORMER ENGAGED]

Now, I can also switch up the dry and wet signal here.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SOUND CLIP IN APPLE LOGIC PRO WITH THE VOCAL TRANSFORMER ENGAGED, WET/DRY MIX BEING MANIPULATED]

I can also change the pitch base here, but you’ll notice it’s disabled so in order to use that, we have to turn on Robot Eyes.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SOUND CLIP IN APPLE LOGIC PRO WITH THE VOCAL TRANSFORMER ENGAGED, ROBOT EYES ON]

And now you can change the pitch base and the tracking.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SOUND CLIP IN APPLE LOGIC PRO WITH THE VOCAL TRANSFORMER ENGAGED, ROBOT EYES ON]

Now, I can change up the tracking and mess around with the pitch base to get a different result. So, if we go -1 on the tracking...

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SOUND CLIP IN APPLE LOGIC PRO WITH THE VOCAL TRANSFORMER ENGAGED]

...and then I adjust the pitch --

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SOUND CLIP IN APPLE LOGIC PRO WITH THE VOCAL TRANSFORMER ENGAGED]

And playing around with this in automation, you can get a lot of interesting results from this particular plugin.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SOUND CLIP IN APPLE LOGIC PRO WITH THE VOCAL TRANSFORMER ENGAGED]

Now, there are a series of presets you can select. If you go here, there is Drum Loop, Transforms, Voices, and Warp Voices. So for example, Plasma Tunnel Alien would sound like this.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SOUND CLIP IN APPLE LOGIC PRO WITH THE VOCAL TRANSFORMER ENGAGED]

Or Deep Transient Gate.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SOUND CLIP IN APPLE LOGIC PRO WITH THE VOCAL TRANSFORMER ENGAGED]

We also have Bright Transient Gate...

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SOUND CLIP IN APPLE LOGIC PRO WITH THE VOCAL TRANSFORMER ENGAGED]

...and you can go to voices and you do things like for rap you can have a female rap track.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SOUND CLIP IN APPLE LOGIC PRO WITH THE VOCAL TRANSFORMER ENGAGED]

Basically, it’s just a slightly detuned voice. It makes your voice seem bigger and deeper because you’ve actually pitched down part of it but you have two going at once. There’s also you can do ensemble voice.

[BILL HOLLAND PLAYING A SOUND CLIP IN APPLE LOGIC PRO WITH THE VOCAL TRANSFORMER ENGAGED]

And this would be very swell on a singing track. So, it’s a pretty basic overview of how to use that. That’s the Vocal Transformer. If I go up to my channel strip, you can see that I can select channel strip. I can also go to view and select controls, and now I have all of the controls available which I can automate in Logic, and everything is editable from the window by using these arrows or the sliders, a much easier way to control this particular plugin.

Well, this is Gearwire.Com, and my name is Bill Holland. We are in Logic with the Vocal Transformer.