Are there directions somewhere for the Easy Vocoder effect?

[digiday]

Hi Gale and Steve,

Gale, I don't know who or what "T-Pain" is, I'm not a fan of some of that new-fangled music. The vocoder music sample that I used in my posted MP3 is from an "E.L.O." song that was released in 1978 called "Mr. Blue Sky"... Jeff Lynne and his band E.L.O. (Electric Light Orchestra) was one of the first to use a vocoded voice in popular music.

Steve, thanks for that bit of info about Audacity not needing the VST Bridge. I read this in the blog post about the Gsnap plugin, so I thought it did need it...

"I would recommend using Audacity version 1.3 beta or higher. The second thing you need is a free plug-in called Gsnap. Gsnap is a VST plug-in which must be installed into Audacity’s plug-in folder in order for it to function. The address path should be something like, “C:/Program Files/Audacity/Plug-Ins/”. Unfortunately, Audacity doesn’t natively support VST effects so it will require a VST Bridge Plug-in to be installed."

That is written on the page at this link...
http://artifexproductionz.blogspot.com/ ... voice.html

I guess the Artifex guy (Nick) who wrote that blog post has somewhat imprecise data about which version of Audacity needs the VST bridge.

With respect to upgrading to the newest Audacity 1.3.13 from my version 1.3.12, if I install the newer version, will I have to re-install my additional plugins, Lame encoder, etc.?... or will it be an in-place upgrade.

Thanks,

digi

[steve]

That is written on the page at this link...

Thanks, I've posted a comment to that blog.

With respect to upgrading to the newest Audacity 1.3.13 from my version 1.3.12, if I install the newer version, will I have to re-install my additional plugins, Lame encoder, etc.?... or will it be an in-place upgrade.

By default it will be an in-place upgrade assuming that you did not do some sort of custom installation of 1.3.12, however it may overwrite any non-standard plug-ins that you have put into the plug-ins folder, so I would advise making a backup copy of the plug-ins folder before you update. (I'm not sure if the plug-ins folder is overwritten or not on Windows, so perhaps you could let me know for future reference).

[digiday]

Thanks Steve and Gale.

[Gale Andrews]

I'm not sure if the plug-ins folder is overwritten or not on Windows, so perhaps you could let me know for future reference.

The 20 plug-ins (and any other files) that are explicitly installed by the Audacity installer are silently overwritten as per normal Windows practice. So if you had a customised version of say vocalremover.ny you would lose it. All other files are left as is, except we remove specific 1.2.x-only help and other files and old Microsoft dlls and manifests that won't work with the current Beta.

If you use the zip to update the Audacity version then most extraction utilities would ask if you wanted to overwrite files, assuming you had any such setting enabled.

The main change you should find in 1.3.13 for VST effects is that processing will be faster than in 1.3.12 (a bug fix for a slowdown that started a few Betas before).


Gale