You are amazing! I just bought Ovox and your tutorial is so complete. I am new to music production and you make the material easy to understand and explain it so well. I subscribed and shared. Thank you!
Yes, there is an "attack and release" for the Gate effect. If you expand the VST (top right of the vst), under Formant Filter--> Speed. Lower it, and it will act faster or slower on the vocal. Make sure you select the frequency range the has the most information (or tone).
Yeah that's not a true attack and release which filters out any noise befoire applying the effects. But it will give a similar result if the vocal is clean enough for sure. Thanks for pointing that out!
Seriously considering getting this plugin but keep talking myself out of it for practical use. While this video didn't show me that it could be any more practical than I have been thinking, it continues to show that the plugin is deep and looks like it could produce a lot of fun. Thanks for the video - gave you a like! :)
Not a direct dry wet balance , at least i didnt found it ;-) You can adjust sibilance / synth etc. Best way is to duplicate the original audio and use ovox on one of the 2 duplicate tracks and balance the twoe.
@@audiotoolshed Thank You for the reply. A great suggestion I am sure many can benefit from this Info that you have provided. Perhaps Waves will give us an update for an overall dry/wet mix knob. I will contact them about it.
Excellent overview Marlon... I think there is an update now, for midi out, that will allow you to trigger other vst instruments from OVOX.... So many creative options to sound sculpt. I look forward to testing the track with live electric bass playing for and instant Bass Synth coupled with that side chain feature you showed with the guitar, or brass , track etc. Much thanks.
@@audiotoolshed Bandlab, but I can't get the sidechain to appear even on the stand alone Ovox. When I right-click the "sidechain" button in the input box, nothing comes up. I can sidechain compressors, so it's specific to Ovox. I could just use Ovox in its own track and have the track be the input, but the same problem would exist if I wanted to use and external carrier rather than the built-in one
Intel i9 9900 for this video if I recall correctly. Best workaround is to increase latency and freeze or commit as much as possible to save cpu usage :-)
Well basically its mixing and more how to mix a voice sound. Every daw has theyre own eq and conpression option these days to achieve that. I made a few videos on how to achieve that, This one is for audacity, check the methods use and apply them: ua-cam.com/video/YXIQowQY6pU/v-deo.html
When I duck it enough to help it becomes obvious in the overall output. I may have to copy the track and manually edit out the plosives or map the higher notes down in OVox.
@@audiotoolshed Thanx sir! I'm strugling a bit since there r many knobs that I'd would love automate at da same time, hopefully u can share a video on that, please? :)
This video is rocking! Thank you so much for your effort! This was the best tutorial about ovox I have seen. I personally think that ovox is way too deep. Almost like learning a daw from the beginning. That many knobs turn me off.
You know, I came here to get my vocals to stop sounding like this. Thanks for the tutorial, but It would be cool to see more of a realized final sound.
@@audiotoolshed Sorry, I meant the final vocoded sound. It doesn't seem to have a clear direction or application. You explained the functions really well, but I have to admit that the final sound was underwhelming and very similar to the sounds I've been creating while attempting to understand how the plugin works. I feel that a more clean and clear final product would have helped demonstrate the role of each parameter in fine-tuning a "radio-ready" final product, with your helpful explanation as a basis. Just my two cents! I still enjoyed the video!.
@@minoguahd3867 Well you have a valid point for sure. This video wasn't ment as a ''how to get a polished sound with ovox'' video :-) I feel that if you want a full polished sound you need more then just ovox, you need to add compression, reverb, eq , arrangements, even more instances of Ovox etc etc etc. Ovox is one of many layers you probably would use for a radio ready, polished, commercial sound. Happy you liked the video!
Forgive me for I am the epitome of beginners, Love the video, I learned more from you then the countless others I have tried to watch. What I don't understand is HOW do I get OVox to appear in my DAW, I have Studio One 4.5 Artist and I can't find OVox anywhere in the menu's or sub-menus. So I am clueless on how to add it to a track or create a track with it in my DAW. Right now it sits as a desktop icon lol.
Hey ! Thanks for the kind words! Do you see other waves plugins? Are you logged in in waves central? If it doesnt always do a reinstall of the plugin first and see if that fixes anything. I dont use studioone,, maybe you can do a manual search of the plugin name. .
@@audiotoolshed I can see all of my plugins that I have installed except Ovox, unlike the others, OVox gave me a desktop icon and even at the OVox main web site, I can't find how you integrate into your DAW., What I like about your video that stands out among the rest is once I figure out how to implement the plugin I'll know how to use all it's features with ease thanks to you.
Ovox is just a plugin like the rest of the waves stuff. So it should be in your plugins list. Reinstall it, see if it does anything. If this does not work , contact waves support. They're really helpful.
@@audiotoolshed I did as you said and reinstalled it, Now I see it in my list, Thank you for your assistance and speedy replies! Time for creating! Thank you again!
Oh and I'm liked and subscribed! Your timely reply and the fact that you actually care about your viewers won me over! Keep up the great work I look forward to more videos.
Haha genieten he. Behindlish. Ga iig niet proberen te klinken als een amerikaan of engelsman. UA-cam begrijpt mijn engels in ieder geval voor 98% als ik de subtitels bekijk ;-)
@@audiotoolshed, I've kept my hair long for about 40 years, but have it tied at the hipster topknot area. But I just read that if it is tight, it does bring on baldness. My mother is Belgian, from Brussels, but her family were from Limbourg. She learnt French, my grandparents spoke Limburgish, and married a Scot from Glasgow. From 1962, we lived in Australia. Few here understood my mothers complex accent. I call myself a 'Euro-Scot', and it is far too hot here, but far too cold in Scotland as well. After watching your demo [half way anyway] I ordered the Ovox that Waves had on sale, but I still have not been able to get it to come through Waves Central. I'm waiting on tech help. I'm restarting music pieces I started about 15 years ago. I like mixing orchestra, 'ethnic' and synth together, so I'm about to get Melodyne 5, and Komplete 13 UCE, as there's a lot missing from what comes with Cubase 10.5. It's near midnight here, and I have to water the garden. The drought is so bad, the bricks in the house are cracking apart as the land subsides. I think a combination of vocoder and 'doctored' vocals in a music piece can represent our Earthly struggles in a corrupted human-machine domination. Few write anymore like Pink Floyd's 'Welcome to the Machine', but is much more relevant these days. Music can be beautiful and have a 'message'. I'm sorry I talk so much; many in my region are facing 30 years of 'lockdown', as in 1990, our public transport was stealthily removed in our famous region inland of Byron Bay. People voted to secede from the NSW state in 1967, but this was sabotaged by NSW corrupt leader of the time. Most around the world would not know of our 'police states', and how history repeats or time goes backwards. Most now are very dysfunctional and perhaps on anti-depressants. Most here cannot see how divided and apartheid we have become.
@liorsilverstein9802 truth, although most plugins have more fine tuning options in their settings, xils is just better. I only got ovox because is was like 80% off
✅ Waves Vocal Bender - Review and Tutorial - Creative and useful Vocal pitching !! ua-cam.com/video/GPMnvpCvjQ8/v-deo.html
You are amazing! I just bought Ovox and your tutorial is so complete. I am new to music production and you make the material easy to understand and explain it so well. I subscribed and shared. Thank you!
Hey thanks for the compliments! Makes me very happy to read it helps you out! Cheers!
Thanks for doing this! Saved me a lot of time. Appreciate you.
Glad it helped!
Yes, there is an "attack and release" for the Gate effect. If you expand the VST (top right of the vst), under Formant Filter--> Speed. Lower it, and it will act faster or slower on the vocal. Make sure you select the frequency range the has the most information (or tone).
Yeah that's not a true attack and release which filters out any noise befoire applying the effects. But it will give a similar result if the vocal is clean enough for sure.
Thanks for pointing that out!
Thank you very much for this very precise and benevolent tutorial/presentation. You are great !. appreciated
Really good tutorial. Thanks.
Hey Neal, no thank you! Much appreciated! Guess nowIi have to rename this video into tutorial too, because you're right ;-)
Seriously considering getting this plugin but keep talking myself out of it for practical use. While this video didn't show me that it could be any more practical than I have been thinking, it continues to show that the plugin is deep and looks like it could produce a lot of fun. Thanks for the video - gave you a like! :)
Thanks for the like! You can always download a trial to check it out of course, then you can get hands on with it :-)
@@audiotoolshed yeah, I got the demo and played a bit with it a few months ago so I can't demo again. I will probably bite at some point 😉
Haha yeah that's the issue with trials ;-) you could open a second account of course.
Thank you @White Noise Studio! you made it super easy to understand.
Many thanks for watching, Max!
how link midi intrument with vocal to play the song automaticly (( in cubase 13)) ?
Nice in-depth review. perhaps I missed it, but is there a mix knob to adjust the wet and the dry signal?
Not a direct dry wet balance , at least i didnt found it ;-) You can adjust sibilance / synth etc. Best way is to duplicate the original audio and use ovox on one of the 2 duplicate tracks and balance the twoe.
@@audiotoolshed Thank You for the reply. A great suggestion I am sure many can benefit from this Info that you have provided. Perhaps Waves will give us an update for an overall dry/wet mix knob. I will contact them about it.
Excellent overview Marlon... I think there is an update now, for midi out, that will allow you to trigger other vst instruments from OVOX.... So many creative options to sound sculpt. I look forward to testing the track with live electric bass playing for and instant Bass Synth coupled with that side chain feature you showed with the guitar, or brass , track etc. Much thanks.
Hey thanks for the nice words! Yeah there's an update, can't update the video of course ;-)LEt me know how the update works for you! Cheers!
My Ovox doesn't have that bar you hit to get sidechain input selection.
Is daw specific. What do you use?
@@audiotoolshed Bandlab, but I can't get the sidechain to appear even on the stand alone Ovox. When I right-click the "sidechain" button in the input box, nothing comes up. I can sidechain compressors, so it's specific to Ovox. I could just use Ovox in its own track and have the track be the input, but the same problem would exist if I wanted to use and external carrier rather than the built-in one
Thanks for this walk through review
Glad it was helpful!
A very thorough walkthrough. Thanks.
Thanks for watching and for your kind words!
What kind of windows computer do you have? This plug in is a CPU hog. Any ideas as to how I can work around this?
Intel i9 9900 for this video if I recall correctly.
Best workaround is to increase latency and freeze or commit as much as possible to save cpu usage :-)
so this is only to sound robotic? can you use to produce a voice to sound natural but professional?
No this is a vocal synthesis based plugin. For what you are looking for this isn't the one you need.
@@audiotoolshed thanks for your reply. Any suggestions for what I'm looking for? I work with Reason 10
Well basically its mixing and more how to mix a voice sound. Every daw has theyre own eq and conpression option these days to achieve that.
I made a few videos on how to achieve that,
This one is for audacity, check the methods use and apply them:
ua-cam.com/video/YXIQowQY6pU/v-deo.html
Sometimes on the plosives, k, p, t, it triggers a note one or two octaves higher. Is there a way to get it to only trigger notes in my vocal range?
Using it realtime? Or after recording.
After recording
Try a de-esser before Ovox, see if it helps.
When I duck it enough to help it becomes obvious in the overall output. I may have to copy the track and manually edit out the plosives or map the higher notes down in OVox.
Yeah, I would do that regardless. More control on normal vox vs ovox
dope! please can u tell us how 2 automate parameters?
Basically how you would automate any plugin. No differences there.
@@audiotoolshed Thanx sir! I'm strugling a bit since there r many knobs that I'd would love automate at da same time, hopefully u can share a video on that, please? :)
Basically any video which explains how to automate with the DAW you use will do the trick, prolly one knob at a time unless you have a controller.
@@audiotoolshed Thank u so much! I got confused, u r right!
Haha hope it all will work out!
This video is rocking! Thank you so much for your effort! This was the best tutorial about ovox I have seen.
I personally think that ovox is way too deep. Almost like learning a daw from the beginning. That many knobs turn me off.
Thanks! Yeah I understand what you mean.
I can't even get my mic to work I just got it yesterday , please can you help me with it
Try monitor enabling in your daw and insert the plugin
You know, I came here to get my vocals to stop sounding like this. Thanks for the tutorial, but It would be cool to see more of a realized final sound.
Hi, thanks for watching!
What exactly mean you mean with ''like this''? A raw vocal or the vocoded sound? Let me know!
@@audiotoolshed Sorry, I meant the final vocoded sound. It doesn't seem to have a clear direction or application. You explained the functions really well, but I have to admit that the final sound was underwhelming and very similar to the sounds I've been creating while attempting to understand how the plugin works. I feel that a more clean and clear final product would have helped demonstrate the role of each parameter in fine-tuning a "radio-ready" final product, with your helpful explanation as a basis. Just my two cents! I still enjoyed the video!.
@@minoguahd3867 Well you have a valid point for sure.
This video wasn't ment as a ''how to get a polished sound with ovox'' video :-) I feel that if you want a full polished sound you need more then just ovox, you need to add compression, reverb, eq , arrangements, even more instances of Ovox etc etc etc. Ovox is one of many layers you probably would use for a radio ready, polished, commercial sound.
Happy you liked the video!
Forgive me for I am the epitome of beginners, Love the video, I learned more from you then the countless others I have tried to watch. What I don't understand is HOW do I get OVox to appear in my DAW, I have Studio One 4.5 Artist and I can't find OVox anywhere in the menu's or sub-menus. So I am clueless on how to add it to a track or create a track with it in my DAW. Right now it sits as a desktop icon lol.
Hey ! Thanks for the kind words! Do you see other waves plugins? Are you logged in in waves central?
If it doesnt always do a reinstall of the plugin first and see if that fixes anything.
I dont use studioone,, maybe you can do a manual search of the plugin name. .
@@audiotoolshed I can see all of my plugins that I have installed except Ovox, unlike the others, OVox gave me a desktop icon and even at the OVox main web site, I can't find how you integrate into your DAW., What I like about your video that stands out among the rest is once I figure out how to implement the plugin I'll know how to use all it's features with ease thanks to you.
Ovox is just a plugin like the rest of the waves stuff. So it should be in your plugins list. Reinstall it, see if it does anything. If this does not work , contact waves support. They're really helpful.
@@audiotoolshed I did as you said and reinstalled it, Now I see it in my list, Thank you for your assistance and speedy replies! Time for creating! Thank you again!
Oh and I'm liked and subscribed! Your timely reply and the fact that you actually care about your viewers won me over! Keep up the great work I look forward to more videos.
Hi, is it possible to sing and trigger the notes via midi while I play my keyboard? I want to do the same as Perform VE, is it possible? Thanks.
+Dan DeLunar hey Dan, the plugin can do midi in, so that won't be a problem
That vocal got creepier each time it played
Haha, it does doesn't it ;-) it's not the most upbeat melody :-)
Toch mooi...engels met een achterhoekse tongval... maar goed, lijkt me Beck's favourite toy...
Haha genieten he. Behindlish. Ga iig niet proberen te klinken als een amerikaan of engelsman. UA-cam begrijpt mijn engels in ieder geval voor 98% als ik de subtitels bekijk ;-)
This vocal got creepier and creepier
Mission accomplished!
Why the subtitle show ur speaking dutch🤣
you've uncovered my plot to have everyone speaking dutch!
@@audiotoolshed Dutch? I thought Danish. A Danish with a cup of tea. I like the pony.
Very much Dutch. Blame my parents for that. Pony stays as long as there is some decent hair ;-)
@@audiotoolshed, I've kept my hair long for about 40 years, but have it tied at the hipster topknot area. But I just read that if it is tight, it does bring on baldness.
My mother is Belgian, from Brussels, but her family were from Limbourg. She learnt French, my grandparents spoke Limburgish, and married a Scot from Glasgow. From 1962, we lived in Australia.
Few here understood my mothers complex accent. I call myself a 'Euro-Scot', and it is far too hot here, but far too cold in Scotland as well.
After watching your demo [half way anyway] I ordered the Ovox that Waves had on sale, but I still have not been able to get it to come through Waves Central. I'm waiting on tech help. I'm restarting music pieces I started about 15 years ago.
I like mixing orchestra, 'ethnic' and synth together, so I'm about to get Melodyne 5, and Komplete 13 UCE, as there's a lot missing from what comes with Cubase 10.5.
It's near midnight here, and I have to water the garden. The drought is so bad, the bricks in the house are cracking apart as the land subsides.
I think a combination of vocoder and 'doctored' vocals in a music piece can represent our Earthly struggles in a corrupted human-machine domination. Few write anymore like Pink Floyd's 'Welcome to the Machine', but is much more relevant these days. Music can be beautiful and have a 'message'.
I'm sorry I talk so much; many in my region are facing 30 years of 'lockdown', as in 1990, our public transport was stealthily removed in our famous region inland of Byron Bay. People voted to secede from the NSW state in 1967, but this was sabotaged by NSW corrupt leader of the time. Most around the world would not know of our 'police states', and how history repeats or time goes backwards. Most now are very dysfunctional and perhaps on anti-depressants. Most here cannot see how divided and apartheid we have become.
Darby Mountains
Fun to play with, but sounds like 💩. You know, that 90's Fruity Loops sound! But good overal review! Cheers!
haha, thanks for the compliment! Well if you want a polished t*rd sound, you know which plugin to get now ;-)
sounds like a joke, waves is always a joke get xils instead or something serious.
@liorsilverstein9802 truth, although most plugins have more fine tuning options in their settings, xils is just better. I only got ovox because is was like 80% off