daft punk: harder, faster, stronger, better: vocal?

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Some of the vocals sound like they were just mapped to the keyboard, some of it sounds sequenced, but then some of it sounds like it was played on an electric guitar??? I know there are midi guitars, but damn, they just hit it with that glam rock vibe. anybody have an idea?
 
Maybe they are actually played on a guitar, but in the postproduction / (pre)mastering process modified with heavy filters (like Sherman's Filterbank or the Elektrix stuff)

Peace !! :cheers:
 
They did a pretty amazing job didn't they. I reckon that it's a heavily autotuned voice and a heavily processed guitar (maybe even sampled and chopped up?) through a vocoder.
 
another applause for Kasio, please !! ;)
indeed the guitar-vocoder combination is a very serious option...
 
It's the song: harder, faster, stronger, better. there's a sample: "our work is never over" which first is played in sequence, then chopped up, and then modulated(I guess?)to sound like an electric guitar riff you'd expect to hear from an 80's glam metal band. deadly funky.
 
ok

i was quite a fan of their first album, but was quite disappointed when i heard "one more time" I must say.. sounded like every other "hits" of the moment ("im blue dabedi.." and other madonna singles beeuuhh :( ).
 
Don't even mention that record in the same sentance as "one more time"! :)
 
I didn't like the album much on first hearing , but gradualy have come to appreciate the cleverness of it.

It is deliberatley kitsch , but at the same time manages to play with very established dance production techniques in a cheeky off the cuff kind of manner.

The vocals on Harder , Better .... etc are heavily autotuned in places , but the note changes are got by changing the note of the carrier signal in a vocoder.

Great track , very distinctive.
 
I find myself appreciating the production on the second more then the first, but the whole feel of the first more then the second.

:)
 
had the same feeling myself the first time I heard the album.. but know it has really grown on me. great production and great songs..
 
acutally im not sure if anyone mentioned it before but i think they could have used a guitar as a midi controller. i know roland made a midi pickup type thing a while ago that read you strng movements and dubbed them into midi information. then the midi was playyed into a vocoder. also there is something called a tak box. all it is is a guitar or instrument or whatever, and a box with a tube that goes into your mouth (not down your throat). and you sing while playing i think. but more than likely it was one of these as those bends ina vocoder and the way the lines were played, only a guitar could do that.
 
beh

daft punk should tell us how they did it
makin everybody go crazy :P
 
Just had a listen to the track after reading this. Sounds like all the other 'Cher' vocal trick bandwagon jumpers. Definitely a vocoder and some autotune program. Still, i like the filtering on some of the tracks. MS20 i think?
 
so how do they REALLY do it?

Hey there... new to the boards today. :D

I searched around all morning (on google and on this board) to try to figure out how Daft Punk controlled the pitch of the vocoder vocals on "harder, better, faster, stronger". It seems that no-one has really figured this out yet. I decided to revive this post to see if anyone REALLY knows?

It seems like they were able to control the pitch of the vocals using a MIDI controller. Do you know of any vocoders that allow this?

Thanks!!
 
Vocoders

The new BV512 Vocoder in Reason 2.5 allows you to do this. You can use any of your other Reason synths as a carrier. Gives some very good results.

I cannot see why you would need a MIDI guitar. It does not matter what you enter your MIDI into your sequencer with at the end of the day it's still just MIDI data. If your used to playing guitar maybe thats easier but you can get the same results with keys. You just have to think guitar when you play and piano roll it into shape with you mouse afterwards ...

It would be possible within Reason to use a sampled guitar riff tho say a rx2 file or something and use this as the carrier.


Might be worth a try.


Ket.
 
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