Multidimensional Processing for Sound, Voice, and More
For decades, the Ircam team has developed cutting-edge analysis and synthesis tools, resulting in algorithms that simultaneously alter multiple dimensions of sound across numerous parameters over several simultaneous channels. Now, Ircam Trax V3, from Flux::, has studio scholars at Sweetwater aghast with its unbridled suite of sonic transformation tools that reimagine entirely how we process, filter, and manipulate audio. The vast scope of aural design tools comprises three distinct but interconnected engines: Transformer, for real-time voice and sound modeling; Cross Synthesis, for spectral envelope processing; and Source Filter, for temporally based spectral color filtering. Whether you’re working with solo voice, instrument tracks, or fully mixed music, Trax V3 is an immensely creative tool kit for unmatched and inspiring sonic transformation.
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Transformer: real-time vocal and sound modeling
Using an innovative transformation algorithm built on augmented phase vocoder technology, Transformer manipulates otherwise abstract parameters of voice, like gender, breath, and age — and concepts like expression, formant, and pitch — in non-voice audio. Deep modulation and manipulation capabilities let you carefully refine which frequencies are modified, blending wet and dry signals, mixing within the processed audio (based on source and target components), and detailed remapping of the spectrum curve of the spectral envelope. Moreover, modulators for pitch and formant values can be used in conjunction with highpass and lowpass filters for evocative interactive and reactive sound shaping. Furthermore, the Transformer’s Spectral Envelope can simultaneously process up to eight audio channels for multichannel surround sound configurations, each of which can be processed or bypassed individually for distinct, immersive soundscapes.
Cross Synthesis: spectral envelope morphing processor
Besides sounding like something out of a Star Trek episode, the Cross Synthesis sub-module frequency management within a given window of audio. Deep oversampling adjustments, toggleable transient processing, and amplitude attenuation provide granular control over the shape of the time-localized data within your incoming audio. Using a phase vocoder, the amplitude and phase spectra can be continuously morphed and blended through a nonlinear structure, allowing you to independently manipulate both spectral and aural characteristics of two sounds with one another.
Source Filter: enhanced sound filtering
Like the Cross Synthesis engine, Source Filter operates within time-based windows that can be manually established, alongside freely adjusting the oversampling factor. The signal model decomposes incoming audio into a temporal envelope that simultaneously looks at a loudness contour and a spectral envelope for the sound’s timbre. Using a supplementing sound as a filtration source, you can continuously blend the color and loudness values between it and your primary audio source, resulting in complex, dynamic, and unusual sounds that reach far beyond your typical morphing filter.
Flux:: Ircam Trax V3 Audio Transformation and Filtering Plug-in Features:
- Cutting-edge Ircam audio analysis and synthesis algorithms allow for complex sound design that provides granular control of abstract audio concepts that aren’t easily quantified
- 3 sub-modules make up the nuanced sound-shaping device for three distinct worlds of audio manipulation
- Deep modulation and automation possibilities include the parameter morphing slider, A/B presets, and a Global Preset to house preset pairs to freely morph through and between
- Transformer sub-module lets you manipulate and modulate aural faculties like age, timbre, breath, pitch, expression, formants, and spectral maps for voice, instrument, and mixed audio
- Cross Synthesis provides nonlinear morphing between the amplitude and phase spectra of two different sounds to create unwieldy and otherworldly effects
- Source Filter maps spectral color and loudness onto a freely edited curve along a temporal envelope to use the spectral parameters of one audio source to morph and filter another
