While it doesn’t stand up to a professional human vocalist it does produce a crisp sound that is extremely capable, it makes for excellent backing harmonies and is a useful tool for demoing vocal melodies. The overall experience when using Alter/Ego’s interface is smooth and intuitive, you can easily utilize the controls to change the tone and timbre of the chosen voicebank.Īlter/Ego is an impressive machine and the free voicebanks are powerful. You can use the plugin right away after that by typing MIDI notes into your DAW and typing words into the words box on the plugin’s interface. These additions make the Marie Ork bank of presets a versatile vocal tool for any production presets include Latin and Japanese phonemes.Īdding new soundbanks to Alter/Ego is easy – download the voicebank here (and the plugin if you don’t already have it), open the plugin, then drag the XML file onto the interface. Marie Ork was released last year as the first available voice for Alter/Ego and was only capable of a metal growl but now has been updated to feature two more voices: clean female vocals and spoken word vocals. You can type in the words for it to sing and then the synth will sing pitches based on your MIDI notes.

For those of you unfamiliar with Alter/Ego you should definitely check it out, it’s an awesome FREE plugin capable of reproducing human vocal melodies.

Karoryfer Samples has released an updated version of their Marie Ork voicebank for Alter/Ego, the free vocal synthesizer VST plugin by Plogue. Marie Ork – Free Voicebank for Alter/Ego Synthesizer

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