United States*** Note: DerVoco is an Audio Unit effect extension and requires an AUv3 compatible host app, like AUM, BM3, Cubasis or GarageBand. It does not run as a standalone app *** Make your synths or drums speak and sing! DerVoco is a vintage vocoder emulation. DerVoco uses analog modelled components including filters, envelope followers and companders to create a warm vintage sound instead of digital techniques like FFT. Features: • AUv3 Audio Effect and Audio Music Effect, works in all AUv3 compatible hosts. • Internal polyphonic VCO may be used as a carrier and can be controlled via MIDI, when plugin is loaded as AU MFx. • A special "input mode” where the carrier and modulator signals are encoded as the left and right channels of a stereo input signal. In this mode any synth plugin (e.g. BeepStreet Zeeon) may be used as a carrier signal. • 11 or 15 bands with on-screen equalizer. • Controllable filter resonance continuously blends from smooth to sharp and ringing sound signature. • Built in compressor and noise gate • Optimised to the limits: 60 filters take 4% CPU on latest iPads.
Beep Street
Not knowing how an app or a plug-in works is not a basis for a bad review. If you can’t take the time to understand how something works, I do not want to read your instruction that I should not buy something. In fact, I don’t want to read any review that tells me what I should do with my money. I’ll give reviewers some instruction, because apparently it’s needed. Unfortunately, it’s needed everywhere (not my job), and not just for this niche product. Recommend a product or don’t, tell us your experience with the developer’s work, compare the product to other things if you like. That is, write a review - not invective, not frustration with your own misunderstanding, not support requests (or demands), not point bribes, and most certainly not imperatives about the buying habits of readers. This kind of stuff wastes your time and ours, it’s out of place, and it is frankly unwelcome. On the product, it works, it behaves in the expected way if you understand old-school vocoders, and it may or may not be what you imagined if you have no experience with such equipment. There are resources available to explain the use of this effect. Please bring yourself up to speed and get the product working before you review it, because otherwise your review will join other irrelevant and misleading reviews here. On the developer (who has been attacked here for no obvious reason), many people - including most of the longtime musicians using software on this platform - find this source both reliable and valuable. A given user may prefer other developers, but this one is well-regarded and responsible. Potential buyers should think about whether an analogue-modeled vintage vocoder fits into their music and workflow before purchase. Digital vocoder designs based on FFT tend to be more straightforward to use and give a wider range of effects. Generally we look to the analogue types on which this one is based for the particular qualities of the sounds they give and the gentle-yet-strange transients they produce. The palette is more limited but special in its characteristics. Check examples of music using vocoders from the seventies if you’re not sure about the sounds you can coax from this kind of machine or software.
United StatesGreat, when it works
I enjoy the sounds I can get out of this, with both the internal synth and external ones. But it randomly loses state. If I close a DAW and then reopen, it resets. Heck, if I just leave it alone for too long, it resets. It has no internal preset saving, and when I try to save presets in Auria, it doesn’t respond to them. Not especially useful.
United StatesCrashes on mixdown
Updated review. I discovered that you can get this to mix down. This app will has two AUv3 plug-ins. Choose the one called DerVoco AU MFx and it will work. Still only giving this 3 stars because that was unclear. This app does exactly what I needed to do however, you cannot export your final mix if this plug-in is enabled. I wish I would’ve listen to the numerous reviews that state this. This app needs to come off of the App Store. It’s broken and it does not work! I’m wondering how many more people this developer is going to let buy this without fixing it. Fix the app and I’ll change the review.
United StatesAnother rip-off from a horrible app developer
As other reviews have stated, this app is pretty much worthless because it fails 100% of the time when trying to export songs from GarageBand. But at least it’s only a couple of bucks down the drain. By all means, do not buy the Zeeon synth from BeepStreet. It does not show up at all as an Inter-App Audio instrument in GarageBand. It is even falsely-advertised as working in AUV3 mode. It doesn’t. I’m much more upset about the 10 bucks I lost downloading that sham clunker.
United StatesCouldn't get it to work...
I couldn't get it to work with GarageBand on iPhone. Is this only for iPad or am I missing something?
United StatesCrashes When Exporting
I love using this plugin, it’s a lot of fun! However, when attempting to export a song from Garageband that uses this plugin, it fails and does not reload. This makes the project useless if it cannot be exported. Please help!!
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