Hybrid
voice engine
Your own organic-synthetic ensemble.
Augmented VOICES takes you beyond conventional choir sounds and familiar one-shots to discover entirely new vocal dimensions for contemporary music production. Whether you’re looking for evocative human timbres for your composition or hybrid whispered textures for pop mixes, embrace the fusion of sampling and synthesis and find your new go-to voice.
Fresh vocal textures
Augmented VOICES hybrid engine elevates the human voice to new heights. This is no ordinary library of static samples or simulated vowel tones - these voices are altered, enhanced, and augmented into sounds that’ll reignite your musicality.
Layer your own sound
Create whatever kind of choral or vocal sound you seek with Augmented VOICES’ multi-engine architecture. You’ve got 2 layers to play with, each containing 2 sound sources, allowing you to build a fully personalized combo of sampled and synthesized voices.
Realistic to abstract
From epic choir soundscapes to processed vocalizations, Augmented VOICES combines over 50 voice articulations with 4 synth engines and built-in FX for a huge range of modern and abstract vocal sounds for any style.
Morphing power
Seamlessly move between Augmented VOICES’ sound layers and alter multiple sonic elements in unison with the innovative Morph control. Create dramatic and ever-evolving sounds from human to synthetic, light to dark, subtle to explosive.
Transform sound instantly
Augmented VOICES’ controls strike the perfect balance between simplicity and functionality; interact with your sound and create expressive movement in real-time with intuitive macro controls, for refined dynamics and variety without ever leaving the main panel.
Deeper customization
Augmented VOICES is designed as your go-to instrument for immediately inspiring voice sounds - but its advanced panel lets you deep dive when you need to. Massive modulation, arpeggiation, and engine customization awaits.
Morphing:
new vocal realities
Unlock the sonic space between real and surreal.
The combination of a beautifully-recorded sample library and 4 powerful synthesis engines already guarantees a fresh and exciting spectrum of sound. But it’s Augmented VOICES’ Morph control that truly unlocks the full potential of this innovative instrument. Navigate near-limitless sonic territory between Layers A and B, and simultaneously tweak up to 8 custom destinations for a sound that evolves with every touch.
Sampling
Enjoy intimate, expressive, powerful vocal sounds with Augmented VOICES’ built-in sample library. Featuring 6 multi-talented vocalists, the library was captured with world-class microphones in a specialized space, ensuring that every vowel and articulation resonates the right way. From rich chamber-style choruses to punchy pop vocals, this library delivers the goods.
Synthesis
Whether you need to embellish your vocal patch with bass-heavy analog, or forge entirely synthetic granular textures, Augmented VOICES’ comes fully equipped with 4 flexible synth engines. Designed by the same teams behind Pigments and V Collection, these are entire instruments within an instrument: Virtual Analog, Granular, Wavetable, and Harmonic.
Multi-Sample Layering
Virtual Analog
Wavetable
Granular
Harmonic
Simpler
Instant, innovative
and inspiring
Go from close-up sampled voices to dense hybrid choir in seconds.
Tap into the most versatile range of vocal sounds and tailor them to suit your style with Augmented VOICES’ approachable, flexible controls, getting you to your sonic destination in as little time as possible.
Move seamlessly between human and synth, create a dense tapestry of layered sound, and tweak up to 8 parameters with a single sweep of Augmented VOICES’ central Morph control. A whole new dimension of authentic and abstract sound within one preset.
For quick expressive changes, Augmented VOICES’ macros offer instinctive control over several parameters simultaneously - sprinkle in some movement, refine the timbral character, and find your position between fast and slow in real-time with these 3 controls.
Shape the final stages of Augmented VOICES’ sound path. Introduce your own custom FX slots, or dial in some ambience with the dedicated Delay and Reverb master FX. Whether you’re looking for the right atmosphere, or sounds altered beyond recognition, these simple controls guarantee quick and inspiring results.
Advanced
sound design
Total custom control over your chosen voice sound.
Augmented VOICES’ Advanced panel goes beneath its easy-to-use controls for massive customization and sound design flexibility when you need it. From sound sources to complex modulation, it’s all here.
It all starts with the sound engines. You have access to two layers, each of them containing two engines, for a total of 4 totally customized sound sources. You can have up to 2 sample engines and 2 synth engines, and Augmented VOICES’ morphing creates a continuous evolving sound. You can also tap into settings like filter cutoff, sample width, and envelope times - make it your own.
Animate and evolve your sound with click-and-drag modulation routing in seconds. Assign multiple LFOs, functions generators, keyboard controls, and more, with almost every element of Augmented VOICES’ architecture available for modulating.
Turn any idea into a darting vocal melody or synthetic vowel sequence with Augmented VOICES’ built-in 16-step arpeggiator. Bring movement to chord sequences, create repeating motifs from a single voice, and fabricate impossible phrases with this easy-to-use polymetric musical tool.
Dial in your own flavors of distortion, sound-sculpting, and drastic processing with 2 FX slots per layer, and sprinkle the final spatial and time-based touches with Delay and Reverb on the master bus at the end of the chain.
The brains behind Augmented VOICES’ crucial macro controls; observe a real-time overview of every parameter that each of the 8 macros are altering, and hone in on the detail of each adjustment as you perform, produce, or record.
Capturing
magic
To ensure that Augmented VOICES’ delivers the exhilarating sounds you’re after, it first needs high-quality samples.
Over 80 hours of arranging, recording, and editing were overseen by leading sound designers, responsible for some of the greatest major-label vocal sounds in contemporary music (Universal Music, EMI, Warner Music, Sony BMG). The sessions took place in specialized studios in Hannover, Germany, using world-class mics and studio equipment from the likes of Neumann, Microtech Gefell, and Heritage Audio.
Featuring 21 male articulations and 30 female articulations, this focused library channels the true emotive power of the human voice, lifelike and stirring, and yours to manipulate.
Voice presets
that deliver
Find a voice that speaks your musical language at the touch of a button.
Mix-ready sounds to complete your project, fill that dynamic gap, or push your creative flow forward, available in seconds. Augmented VOICES’ preset library includes hundreds of expertly-crafted presets, from realistic film score choirs to perfectly artificial vocalizations, to get your music talking.
Voices
Eeh Ensemble
Simple choir sound based on the Eeh sound. Motion Macro adds sidechain like modulation.
Staccato Sustained Aah
Simple choir sound based on the Aah sound, with a staccato articulation controled by velocity.
Gregorian
Natural male choir where the Morph Macro sets the balance between regular Oohs and vibrato Oohs.
Hybrid
Major 7th_Arp
Cinematic major 7th chord arpeggio. Best played monophonically.
Fairground Fun
Dynamic vocal keys with long release. Aftertouch adds vibrato. Mod wheel controls tremolo amount and speed.
Crystal Figures
Layered, evolving ambient keys using additive, wavetable, and sample engines.
Synths
Additive Staccato
Real human staccato voices, played by an arpeggiator, and layered with granular and additive elements when using Morph Macro or mod wheel.
Groove Impact
Trap/Hip-Hop percussive lead, i like it at mid-bass range.
Dreamlands Tales
Evolving atmosphere uses an LFO to create a vocal rattling by modulating a sample's amplitude.
Artistscorner
Voices
for every style
Augmented VOICES spans the real and abstract, organic and digital, contemporary and retro, in ways unheard. Before experiencing it for yourself, check out these inspiring demos crafted by sound designers and artists using this unique hybrid instrument.
Included in
V collection
Legendary Keyboards Reinvented
This instrument is also part of the V Collection -your complete dream line-up of the legendary synths, organs, pianos and more that made keyboard history. They’re modeled with the most advanced technologies for authentic realism, and enhanced with new creative options. Whether you use it as DAW plugins in the studio or standalone at gigs, V Collection puts the greatest keys of all time at your fingertips for instant inspiration.
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Main Features
Virtual Instruments playable in a DAW (Live, FL Studio, Logic,...) or standalone with a MIDI keyboard.
Dynamic hybrid voice instrument
2 Layers within each preset; each layer contains 2 customizable sound sources
Detailed vocal sample library
- Featuring solo and ensemble recordings
- Close and far mic arrangements
- Over 50 expressive and contemporary articulations
Flexible synth engines
- Virtual analog with our award winning TAE® technology
- Granular engine producing Warp, glitch and stretch sounds
- Harmonic engine based on additive synthesis
- Wavetable engine with look up table for more abrasive digital sounds
Morph control moves between Layers A and B, and/or affecting up to 8 custom destinations
7 additional macros: Time, Color, Motion, FX A, FX B, Reverb, Delay
2 LFOs, 2 Function Generators, 2 Random Generators, 4 Keyboard modulation sources, dedicated Vibrato & Tremolo
2 FX slots per layer with 14 FX including ParamEQ, Bitcrusher, BL-20 Flanger, and more
Dedicated Delay and Reverb sends with 5 spatial/time-based algorithms
Built-in 16-step arpeggiator
Over 250 factory presets included
MPE compatibility
MTS-ESP ODDSOUND microtuning compatibility
Platform specifications
Windows
- Win 10+ (64bit)
- 4 GB RAM
- 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost)
- 3GB free hard disk space
- OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
- ARM processors not supported on Windows
Required configuration
- Works in Standalone, VST, AAX, Audio Unit, NKS (64-bit DAWs only).
Apple
- Mac OS 11+
- 4 GB RAM
- 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost) or M1 CPU
- 3GB free hard disk space
- OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
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