Vocalizer Pro

[Nullgrad]

Does anyone know if it is possible to use a usb microphone to process my voice through Sonivox Vocalizer Pro using Orion Platinum ?

[Kriminal]

if its a plugin, sure

[Teksonik]

It depends on whether or not your computer system sees the USB Mic as a valid audio device and whether Orion (or any DAW) sees it as a valid Audio Input.

[HYPNAGOGIA]

Depends.

If you're using ASIO driver, your input device will have to be same as output device.
Since any USB device will be registered as separate audio device, that won't work.

You can, however, choose your inputs and outputs if you switch to DirectSound or Wave MME type.

[Teksonik]

It would help if we knew what USB Mic. If it's something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/ELEGIANT-Condens ... 222&sr=8-6

-Plug and Play: Simply plug pc microphone into any available USB port, select it as your input in your software settings, and you're ready to create your own audio.Windows and Mac compatible, and no software to install.

Then Orion should see it ?

[HYPNAGOGIA]

If ASIO driver is being used, Orion won't see USB mic as input.

All you get is this:



Which means that it can only receive input from the same device that's being used for output (XLR/TSR mic or line-level inputs from audio interface), but not as separate device that USB mics are detected as.

But if you switch to DirectSound or Wave MME, you'll get a whole list of devices to choose from:



But in that case, you can't use ASIO driver.

[Nullgrad]

Thanks for the info......some things for me to try then.

[Teksonik]

If ASIO driver is being used, Orion won't see USB mic as input.

On my internet computer I only have onboard sound with FL Studio ASIO installed. With it you can select a Mic input:

Fl Asio.png

I just tried in Orion and using FL Studio ASIO it is possible to have input from a Mic by selecting "Enable Input" and "Monitor Input".

I don't know if FL ASIO is installed with the FL Studio demo but if you don't have a dedicated audio device with its own ASIO drivers it's worth looking into.

FL-Orion.png

[HYPNAGOGIA]

I stand corrected.

I thought it was a hardware thing, where Orion would only see inputs from the hardware in use, but it turns out it is about software.

I'm using a dedicated sound card (Delta 1010LT) which has its own ASIO driver. In addition, I'm also using integrated Realtek HD audio, and an external USB mixer that also acts as an audio interface. But it pissed me off that it wouldn't play anything else when Delta's ASIO was in use, so I installed Voicemeeter (it's free) with its "virtual cable" to go around that problem.

Voicemeeter allows me to route any audio from any source into it, that would then feed into M-Audio ASIO as main output. So, when I routed headset microphone from Realtek's input, even when input in Orion was set to "same as output", it was able to record into an audio track.

Pretty cool. Honestly didn't know it could do that.
I always thought I would have to have a mic hooked to a mic input on the Delta, but seems that's not the case.
Thanks, Tek

[Teksonik]

Cool ! I'm glad I was able to provide some useful information.

[Nullgrad]

This is the usb microphone I bought

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07 ... UTF8&psc=1

Just by chance this week I was going through all the instruments and effects I had, and I had forgotten I had Vocalizer Pro so it's the first time I have tried it, I have installed the microphone and ticked the audio input box and gone with Wave MME for audio output but so far I haven't been able to process my voice through Vocalizer Pro, I have managed to process one of my many VST instument's which hopefully is a start !!

UPDATE - I figured it out - open an audio track - add Vocaloid Pro as an effect and then open sampler and use that to control Vocaloid Pro.
Then sing or speak into the usb mic and play a chord and that's it.....it's only taken me 20 years to finally be able to sing live through a Vocoder !!

Thanks for all your help so far !!

[Teksonik]

Load an Audio Track, Select Input then load the plugin on that track ?

Orion 100420-1.png

[Nullgrad]

Cheers that's what I did.... Thanks