DeccaBuddy
The Akai Professional Decabuddy VST Plug-in is a software equivalent of the HV10 Harmony Processor.
It is capable of taking a monophonic audio signal and generating up to four harmony voices plus a unison voice that can track the audio input, and a Dual function allows doubling of each voice, providing a total of 10-voice harmonies.
The various controls allow you affect the tone of the harmony voices. RANDOM introduces a random delay in each of the voices whilst FORMANT allows you to 'gender bend' the harmony making it more feminine or masculine. For really precise harmonies, the pitch of harmony voices can be quantized and each voice may be panned and mixed.
Harmonies can be pre-programmed using preset or user scales, or they can be 'played' via MIDI.
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PitchRight
The Akai Professional PitchRight VST plug-in is a real-time pitch corrector with virtually zero latency.
It takes incoming audio and retunes it so that the output is perfectly in tune. It can be applied to vocals or just about any monophonic audio source that needs pitch correction.
If the performance is generally satisfactory, you can select which notes will be processed and brought into tune using the keyboard graphic shown on the left of the panel - by clicking on notes on the keyboard, you can select which notes will and will not be processed. You can also use a series of preset scales to assist with this and given the real-time performance of the processor, you can switch between these 'on-the-fly' using either the panel switches or 'hotkeys' on your Mac/PC keyboard.
With the MIDI function, you can control the pitch from an external MIDI keyboard or your MIDI sequencer.
The RATIO, SMOOTHING and CALIBRATE parameters allow you to control how the pitch correction will be applied and the effect can be anything from subtle to robotic. The effect can be temporarily disabled using the INHIBIT key.
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Quad Comp
The Akai Professional Quad Comp VST plug-in is a multi-band compressor/expander that can be used for mastering purposes.
While it is possible to use an ordinary compressor for tightening up and adding punch to a stereo mix, it is very common that low frequencies can cause 'pumping' effects on the overall signal. However, by splitting the signal into four different frequency bands, each frequency region can be separately processed. This is achieved on the Quad Comp using a series of crossover filters. These filters are constructed as linear phase FIR filters in order to produce a signal path which is perfectly free of phase errors. Crossover frequencies can be set for the four bands from 50Hz to 12.5kHz and the slope is selectable from 6 to 24dB/octave.
Each band has controls for THRESHOLD, RATIO, ATTACK and RELEASE and as these are adjusted, the compression curve is shown graphically. The GAIN control allows you to compensate for level changes that may occur.
Input and output levels for each band are shown as is the amount of gain reduction.
The panel can be switched between the multi-band compressor and the multi-band expander.
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DC Vocoder
The Akai Professional DC Vocoder VST plug-in is a high quality 50-band vocoder that offers outstanding intelligibility.
The SPECTRUM ANALYZER panel shows the frequency spectrum of the signal which, in conjunction with the 50-band graphic equalizer panel below, allows you to radically alter the tonal balance of the vocoded signal. With the graphic equalizer panel, you can create an almost infinite number of vocoder sounds.
Furthermore, the FORMANT control allows you to 'gender-bend' the output - higher settings sound more feminine; lower settings sound more masculine.
DC Vocoder also includes a simple built-in, 6-voice synthesizer that can be used as a carrier signal to be vocoded. This synth can be used as a 'drone' with pitches for each of the six voices set using the keyboard graphic. However, the synthesizer can also be played in real-time using MIDI.
In addition, it is also possible to use external audio sources as the carrier signal.
The levels for the incoming modulator and carrier signals, can be adjusted, as well as the overall output level.
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Rotator
The Akai Professional Rotator is a VST plug-in that uses modeling technology to accurately reproduce the sound of a rotating speaker.
Rotary speakers typically have two speeds - slow and fast - and these can be selected using a switch. However, it's not quite as simple as that.
Rotary cabinets usually have two rotating speakers known as the ROTOR and the HORN. The ROTOR handles low to mid frequency components in the sound whilst the HORN handles upper mid to high frequencies and these rotate at slightly different speeds which subtly thickens the sound. Furthermore, when switching between the cabinet's two speeds, due to mechanical inertia, the speakers take some time to speed up and slow down and, because of the different weights of the speakers, the rotor and the horn speed up/slow down at different rates (the heavier LF rotor taking longer, of course).
The ROTATOR plug-in authentically emulates these characteristics to create a very accurate simulation of the effect.
It is possible to set the slow and fast speeds of the effect and you can switch between these speeds using either the panel switch or nominated 'hotkeys' on your Mac/PC keyboard.
The ACCEL (or 'acceleration') parameter sets the rate at which the effect speeds up/slows down.
The DISTORTION parameter allows to add some 'edge' to the sound to simulate the effect of the rotary cabinet being overdriven.
The BALANCE control sets the relative balance of levels between the horn and rotor.
The final control - STEREO MIC SEPARATION - allows you to set the position of a pair of virtual microphones from mono to wide stereo.
Of course, rotary speakers aren't limited to only being used with organs - they can be used on any sound and many distinctive sounds have been created in the past by putting guitars, electric pianos - even vocals - through them.
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