MUTATOR Evo Extreme Voice Designer
MUTATOR Evo provides a combination of tools for creating unusual,
weird, or downright wacky voices. With high-quality pitch shifting,
throat modeling, pitch-tracking ring modulator-based “mutation,” and a
mind-bending tempo-synced Alienization function, MUTATOR Evo is the
perfect tool for unique special vocal effects and post-production sound
design.
Audio Examples
All except the final MUTATOR Evo demo uses a single instance of
MUTATOR Evo to process the same female vocal phrase.
Here is the unprocessed vocal.
Pitch Shift, Throat Modeling and
Mutation
In these first two demos, we use MUTATOR Evo's Pitch Shift and
Throat Modeling to create relatively natural variations of the original
vocal.
Demo 1 - Shift down
Demo 2 - Shift up
In the next demo, we combine Pitch Shift, Throat Modeling, and one of
the 24 varieties of Mutation to turn our vocalist into a demon.
Demo 3 - Demonize
Alienization
Alienization is a realtime process that chops the audio input up into
sections and plays each section backwards. The Dialect control selects
the length of the sections.
In this first example, we apply Alienization with a medium Dialect
setting to the otherwise unaffected vocal.
Demo 4 - Basic Alienization
In the next example, we add another variety of Mutation and set
Dialect to a shorter period, allowing more recognizable bits of the
original phrase to come though.
Demo 5 - Short period Alienization
Finally, yet another variety of Mutation with Dialect set to a much
longer period, moving fully into the land of the weird.
Demo 6 - Long period Alienization
Tempo-Synced Alienization
In this demo by Allen Papouban, MUTATOR Evo's new Tempo-Synced
Alienization function is used to sync the alienized vocal to the tempo
of the song.
Demo 7 - Tempo-Synced Alienization
Automating Variations
All of MUTATOR Evo's various tools can be automated. Here we torture
our vocal for the last time, varying pitch shift, throat models,
mutation, processed/original mix and alienization.
Demo 8 - Automated Variation
In this final demo, singer/songwriter Hope Mayo has been
gracious enough to let us muck about with her lovely song "My Life." We
processed her vocal track in real time with one instance of MUTATOR,
using automation to vary the pitch shift, throat length and width,
original and processed mix (to produce harmony), and even a little
alienization (sorry, we couldn't help ourselves). We have included the
track in its original form so that you can clearly hear what MUTATOR
Evo has done with it (plus, it's just a really nice song that deserves
to be heard the way Hope intended).
Original track
Processed track
