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Hi Ingo

selfoscillate schrieb:
> some vocoders have a nice feature called "pause stuffing".
> http://www.selfoscillate.de/forumfiles/pausestuffing.jpg
If I understand it right, it provides some amount of the carrier signal 
to the modulator chain. This carrier2modulator signal is compressed by 
the incoming modulator signal (e.g. voice in the standard usage).

What I do not understand: this "pause signal" will be assumingly a very 
wobbly sound, because the changes of overtone will be exponentiated bye 
the self vocoding. Does it really sound good?


And @ggtonet:

Additionally to the other recommendations I'd like to add:

You should have compressors for the Vocoder. At least one. You can use 
an external compressor or a combination of A175 Inverter and A130 linear 
VCA as used in Ingos example.

Then I suggest a second A119 Ext-In, to reassure, that your carrier 
signal is at a correct level. Typical studio line signals have lower 
level than the internal signals of the A100. If you don't adopt the 
signal level, you will have a bad signal to noise ratio.

Also I recommend a high pass filter. There are at least two usages for it:
1.) Mix a little bit of the high frequencies of the original modulator 
signal to the output. This increases the understandability of vocoded 
speech extremely (I have made the well know example for the A129 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLRgjzEjFkM with this trick).
2.) taking away a littlebit of the bottom end of the modulator input 
signal before the (recommended) compressor increases the overall "power" 
of the final signal.

Florian