Klevgrand Pipa
Vocal Synthesizer Virtual Instrument
A Singing Wavetable and Granulating Synth with Lots of Expression
Pipa is a singing vocal synth with a unique and different sound.
It is inspired by the expression and flexibility of the human voice, but does not aim to cover all the aspects of an actual voice.
Instead, it focuses on an organic and musical sound where the user can control formants and dynamics seamlessly.
The synth engine is a crossover between a wavetable and a granulating synthesizer, which results in a very expressive and playable instrument.
Instead of using ordinary samples or processing oscillators with formant filters, Pipa uses a large database of thousands of wavetables extracted from real vocal samples.
The advantage of the technique being used is that it's possible to morph between wavetables with proper phase alignment seamlessly.
This enables Pipa to continuously make transitions between pitch, formants, and dynamics, which is very useful in a musical context.
Features
- Unique crossover between a wavetable- and a granulating synthesizer
- Continuous morphing between formants, dynamics, and pitch
- Features both male and female voices
- Separate envelopes (with linked release time) and LFOs for formant, dynamics, gain, and pitch
- Two MIDI Assignable controllers (Ctrl1 and Ctrl2) for controlling formants, dynamics, pitch, and gain
- Legato mode with control over both pitch glide time and velocity glide time
- Voice spatialization
- Plenty of factory presets
- Room simulation & Reverb algorithm
Anatomy
Curve - A lot of Pipa's expression possibilities lies in the refined controls over Gain, Pitch, Dynamics, and Vowel.
LFO - A powerful LFO section accompanies every Envelope.
Power Cords - Fine-tune the characteristics of the vocal instrument.
Stereo Width - Widen your voice if you want, in several different ways.
Room & Reverb - Room ambience and Reverb give plenty of quick options.
System Requirements
- MacOS 10.10 Yosemite and above
- Windows 7 and above (64-bit only)
- Intel, AMD, or Apple Silicon CPU
Plugin Formats
AAX Native, AU, and VST3
User Manual
