I remember as a teen I had the chance to try out a Korg VC 10 in a music store for half an hour. It really impressed me and ever since then I’ve wanted a vocoder at some point. Yesterday I installed a sound card with input in my Zynthian V2 Kit and what can I say - it sounds better than my memory of the Korg vocoder. 
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It seems that any of the 4 vocoder plugins included do work as expected. Some love may be required to make it work … jejeje! Volunteers to do some research on this?
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It was easier than I thought, just an audio FX layer with a TAL vocoder and an additional Dragonfly Plate reverb. Of course no sound without singing + midi input.
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Really nice.
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I’ve thought for a while that a gooseneck mic on the front of the Zynthian would be a good addition.
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Ups! I see the “TAL-vocoder II” works quite nicely…
Good point, @spurkopf , i will enable this plugin by default.
Thanks!
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Jejejeje! It’s really funny. I can’t stop … 
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Gotcha 
! And after all the fun, there is a task to accomplish.
So we want to hear his masters voice, or at least his robot avatar.
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Yes yes, our zynthian’s father the creator - please share your vocodered voice with us 
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Yes, or even just an XLR connector so you could decide what mic/mounting you want, as the Roland JD-Xi does - although they do supply a gooseneck/mic as well. Bonus points for switchable phantom power!
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Hi !
So, you did not add a “midi+audio chain” but just an “audio chain” ? How did you link link it to you midi instrument ?
Oh, that was over 2 years ago and the Zynthian OS was different. If I remember correctly, back then there were only instrument or audio tracks and both had midi.
Oooh… It was not the 22 of April but April of 2022 
It doesn’t work right now in Osram, but I will make other tests…
Thank you for the answer anyway! 
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I’ll give it a try when I get the chance.
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MIDI + audio chain was specifically introduced to support plugins like vocoder. @jofemodo posted about it at the time, a few months ago.
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I recognize the problem. The Tal Vocoder is listed under Audio Effect/Modulation and therefore has no Midi input. At the moment I can’t find a way to pass the midi signal internally.
I see that the Tal Vocoder is listed twice, with Add Midi+Audio Chain and Audio Effect/Pitch it could work.
I’ve also been trying to get this working in oram, please post your results if you figure out a way!
Yes it does work !
It was because my “input Right Gain” was down again and not as my “20.0dB” as it was before I’ve clicked on “remove all” to have a clean workspace.
It is FUN ! But doesn’t do polyphony or pitch bend or modulation.
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But FUN !!
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What do you mean? AFAIK, TAL vocoder is polyphonic.
But doesn’t support pitch bend or modulation. That’s true.
Regards,
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