Korg Pa5X: How to use the vocoder

[⚖Robinez]

I saw this question on an other forum, so I thought my answer would be of interest for the people over here.

How to use the vocoder?

Here is how to do this on a pa5x.

It works rather differently than on previous models, here is how

- press the settings button
- press the menu button
- press the mic setup tile
- in voice settings section you see a checkbox called mute , set that to on (you don't want to hear your own voice, but only the vocoder effect, which is a different effect than for instance the 'queen' harmony choir mode preset in the vocal section)

Now select one of the vocoder presets in the factory strings category the last entries are the vocoder ones

- Now you have to disable the vocal FX processors of the main page, because you only want to use the vocoder here is how to do it:
- press the main button
- set the view button to the sliders
- on switch 1 you see Mic, this has to be set to ON
- on switch 3 you see the MicFx , set this to OFF to disable your harmony processors and reverbs and delays and your own voice

Now play chords with the upper 1 sound and sing along with that vocoder voice.

You can modify a lot (like the synth carrier, or the routings in your Master FX, or even add talkbox type of effects on top of it, if you are a really advanced user). So this is just a quick setup of the vocoder and you can program it in master FX 2 which is routed to your mic and the FX control 1 section and the upper 1 as the modulator.