Setting up Vokator in Logic Studio

Setting it up properly is not that intuitive and surprisingly difficult to find simple instructions on ‘la interwesbs’, so in case anyone else is stumped – cos the manual doesn’t even bother to try and explain such things – here’s how to do it:

1) On Audio Instrument Track 1, put Vokator in as an instrument (not effect)

2) On Audio track 1, set it up to receive mic input,  set its output to Bus 1 - and don’t forget to arm it (press the ‘R’ button to make it flash red)

3) Mute Bus 1 (strange, but true)

4) Open up Vokator that you placed on Instrument 1, and in the Side-Chain setting, choose Bus 1

5) In the main Arrange window select Audio Instrument 1, so that you can play your keyboard through it – voila! Vokator will now only process audio sung/spoken into the mic when you play the keys on the keyboard and you have the classic vocoding effect. (If it isn’t, check that Audio track 1 is still armed (red ‘R’ flashing)

Hopefully someone will find this as useful as I would have done a couple of weeks ago, and as I probably will in a couple of weeks when I forget how to do it again…