Designed for both DJs and musicians, the Warp Factory may be the ultimate standalone Vocoder. With those great big buttons, the Warp Factory is designed for easy hands-on use. It has an XLR Mic input (handy on the front) and a quarter-inch line input for use as the Formant or carrier signals. Then there are two quarter-inch line inputs and two RCA phono inputs for your stereo source sounds, either drum loops, mixes, songs, synth pads, etc…
The way it works is whatever Formant signal you have say your voice will be distorted to take on the characteristic of the source signal you have say a buzzing synth sound. This would basically give you that robot voice effect.
In the Warp section you will find most of the buttons and cool features of the Warp. There is a low and high pass filter switch. A ‘Gender’ knob adjusts the pitch of the Formant. ‘Q’ adjusts the width of the filtering. An ‘Order’ adjusts the filter resolution for clear to abstract vocoding effects. There’s also Noise and a built-in oscillator source signal whose pitch is adjusted by ‘Robot Pitch’. Several Bypass and Freeze switches and complete MIDI implementation make this the ultimate vocoder for DJs, musicians and producers. It has been used by U2, John Digweed, United State of Electronics and the Chemical Brothers.