Augmented VOICES

Acoustic Instruments Reinvented

Augmented VOICES uniquely fuses detailed vocal samples with modern synthesis engines for an intuitive software instrument that equips producers with a comprehensive palette of pristine, intimate, and commanding voice sounds for modern production.

Hybrid Voice Engine

Your Own Organic-Synthetic Ensemble

Augmented VOICES takes you beyond conventional choir sounds and familiar one-shots to discover entirely new vocal dimensions for contemporary music production. Whether you’re looking for evocative human timbres for your composition or hybrid whispered textures for pop mixes, embrace the fusion of sampling and synthesis and find your new go-to voice.

Fresh Vocal Textures

Augmented VOICES hybrid engine elevates the human voice to new heights. This is no ordinary library of static samples or simulated vowel tones - these voices are altered, enhanced, and augmented into sounds that’ll reignite your musicality.

Layer Your Own Sound

Create whatever kind of choral or vocal sound you seek with Augmented VOICES’ multi-engine architecture. You’ve got 2 layers to play with, each containing 2 sound sources, allowing you to build a fully personalized combo of sampled and synthesized voices.

Realistic to Abstract

From epic choir soundscapes to processed vocalizations, Augmented VOICES combines over 50 voice articulations with 4 synth engines and built-in FX for a huge range of modern and abstract vocal sounds for any style.

Morphing Power

Seamlessly move between Augmented VOICES’ sound layers and alter multiple sonic elements in unison with the innovative Morph control. Create dramatic and ever-evolving sounds from human to synthetic, light to dark, subtle to explosive.

Transform Sound Instantly

Augmented VOICES’ controls strike the perfect balance between simplicity and functionality; interact with your sound and create expressive movement in real time with intuitive macro controls, for refined dynamics and variety without ever leaving the main panel.

Deeper Customization

Augmented VOICES is designed as your go-to instrument for immediately inspiring voice sounds - but its advanced panel lets you, deep dive when you need to. Massive modulation, arpeggiation, and engine customization awaits.

Morphing - New Vocal Realities

Unlock the Sonic Space Between Real and Surreal

The combination of a beautifully-recorded sample library and 4 powerful synthesis engines already guarantees a fresh and exciting spectrum of sound. But it’s Augmented VOICES’ Morph control that truly unlocks the full potential of this innovative instrument. Navigate near-limitless sonic territory between Layers A and B, and simultaneously tweak up to 8 custom destinations for a sound that evolves with every touch.

Sampling

Enjoy intimate, expressive, powerful vocal sounds with Augmented VOICES’ built-in sample library. Featuring 6 multi-talented vocalists, the library was captured with world-class microphones in a specialized space, ensuring that every vowel and articulation resonates the right way. From rich chamber-style choruses to punchy pop vocals, this library delivers the goods.

Synthesis

Whether you need to embellish your vocal patch with bass-heavy analog, or forge entirely synthetic granular textures, Augmented VOICES’ comes fully equipped with 4 flexible synth engines. Designed by the same teams behind Pigments and V Collection, these are entire instruments within an instrument: Virtual Analog, Granular, Wavetable, and Harmonic.

• Multi-Samples Layering
• Virtual Analog
• Wavetable
• Granular
• Harmonics

Instant, Innovative and Inspiring

Go from close-up sampled voices to a dense hybrid choir in seconds.

Tap into the most versatile range of vocal sounds and tailor them to suit your style with Augmented VOICES’ approachable, flexible controls, getting you to your sonic destination in as little time as possible.

_01. MORPH

Move seamlessly between human and synth, create a dense tapestry of layered sound, and tweak up to 8 parameters with a single sweep of Augmented VOICES’ central Morph control. A whole new dimension of authentic and abstract sound within one preset.

_02. COLOUR, TIME & MOTION

For quick expressive changes, Augmented VOICES’ macros offer instinctive control over several parameters simultaneously - sprinkle in some movement, refine the timbral character, and find your position between fast and slow in real-time with these 3 controls.

_03. FX, DELAY & REVERB

Shape the final stages of Augmented VOICES’ sound path. Introduce your own custom FX slots or dial in some ambience with the dedicated Delay and Reverb master FX. Whether you’re looking for the right atmosphere or sounds altered beyond recognition, these simple controls guarantee quick and inspiring results.

Advanced Sound Design

Total Custom Control Over Your Chosen Voice Sound

Augmented VOICES’ Advanced panel goes beneath its easy-to-use controls for massive customization and sound design flexibility when you need it. From sound sources to complex modulation, it’s all here.

LAYERS

It all starts with the sound engines. You have access to two layers, each of them containing two engines, for a total of 4 totally customized sound sources. Each sound source can utilize samples or any of the synth engines, and Augmented VOICES’ morphing creates a continuously evolving sound. You can also tap into settings like filter cutoff, sample width, and envelope times - make it your own.

MODULATION

Animate and evolve your sound with click-and-drag modulation routing in seconds. Assign multiple LFOs, functions generators, keyboard controls, and more, with almost every element of Augmented VOICES’ architecture available for modulating.

ARPEGGIATOR

Turn the simplest of ideas into vibrant flurries of acoustic texture and momentum with a built-in 16-step polymetric arpeggiator. Whether you’re injecting movement into a chord sequence or looking to weave an ever-evolving string tapestry into your ambient soundscapes, this familiar tool is built to be synchronized, randomized, and tweaked in real time.

EFFECTS

Dial in your own flavours of distortion, sound-sculpting, and drastic processing with 2 FX slots per layer, and sprinkle the final spatial and time-based touches with Delay and Reverb on the master bus at the end of the chain.

MACROS

The command centre for Augmented STRINGS’ crucial macro controls; observe a real-time overview of every parameter that each of the 8 macros is altering, and hone in on the detail of each adjustment as you perform, produce, or record.

Capturing Magic

To ensure that Augmented VOICES’ delivers the exhilarating sounds you’re after, it first needs high-quality samples.

Over 80 hours of arranging, recording, and editing were overseen by leading sound designers, responsible for some of the greatest major-label vocal sounds in contemporary music (Universal Music, EMI, Warner Music, Sony BMG). The sessions took place in specialized studios in Hannover, Germany, using world-class mics and studio equipment from the likes of Neumann, Microtech Gefell, and Heritage Audio.

Featuring 21 male articulations and 30 female articulations, this focused library channels the true emotive power of the human voice, lifelike and stirring, and yours to manipulate.

Voice Presets that Deliver

Find a voice that speaks your musical language at the touch of a button.

Mix-ready sounds to complete your project, fill that dynamic gap, or push your creative flow forward, available in seconds. Augmented VOICES’ preset library includes hundreds of expertly crafted presets, from realistic film score choirs to perfectly artificial vocalizations, to get your music talking.

Voices for Every Style

Augmented VOICES spans the real and abstract, organic and digital, contemporary and retro, in ways unheard. Before experiencing it for yourself, check out these inspiring demos crafted by sound designers and artists using this unique hybrid instrument.

The Features You Need

In-App Tutorials

Integrated in-app tutorials guide you through every aspect of the instrument, from individual parameters to tips from Arturia's sound designers, so you can focus on the creative stuff. It shouldn't be this easy, but it is!

ASC

Arturia Software Center lets you download, organize, and update all of your Arturia software titles in one place, as well as manage all of your licenses across multiple devices. Keep it simple.

DAW Ready

Arturia's virtual instruments and plugins are designed to fit right into your setup without hassle. Whatever your style, you can explore sound while enjoying full compatibility with major DAWS, on both Windows and macOS.

Preset Browser

Instantly find the sound that’s in your head with intelligent & streamlined preset browsing. Search keywords, explore by instrument type, musical style, and more - you can even save your favourites to quickly recall later.

Resizable GUI

Whether you want the full visual immersion of Arturia's classic instrument emulations, or to save precious screen real estate, the interfaces for all of your Arturia virtual instruments can be resized to a scale that suits you.

Perfect Integration

Instruments come seamlessly mapped for the Arturia KeyLab range - but they’ll place nice with other MIDI controllers too. Instant sound tweaking macros, easy DAW integration, and standalone operation.

Features

• Virtual Instruments playable in a DAW (Live, FL Studio, Logic,...) or standalone with a MIDI keyboard.
• Dynamic Hybrid Voice Instrument
• 2 Layers within each preset; each layer contains 2 customizable sound sources
• Detailed Vocal Sample Library
  • Featuring solo and ensemble recordings
  • Close and far mic arrangements
  • Over 50 expressive and contemporary articulations
• Flexible Synth Engines
  • Virtual analog with award-winning TAE® technology
  • Granular engine producing Warp, glitch and stretch sounds
  • Harmonic engine based on additive synthesis
  • Wavetable engine with a look-up table for more abrasive digital sounds
• Morph control moves between Layers A and B, and/or affects up to 8 custom destinations
• 7 Additional Macros - Time, Color, Motion, FX A, FX B, Reverb, Delay
• 2 LFOs, 2 Function Generators, 2 Random Generators, 4 Keyboard modulation sources, dedicated Vibrato & Tremolo
• 2 FX slots per layer with 14 FX including ParamEQ, Bitcrusher, BL-20 Flanger, and more
• Dedicated Delay and Reverb sends with 5 spatial/time-based algorithms
• Built-in 16-step arpeggiator
• Over 250 factory presets included
• MPE compatibility
• MTS-ESP ODDSOUND micro-tuning compatibility

System Requirements

• Works in Standalone, VST, AAX, Audio Unit, NKS (64-bit DAWs only).

Mac

• Mac OS 10.13+
• 4 GB RAM
• 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost) or Apple Silicon CPU
• 3GB free hard disk space
• OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU

Windows

• Win 10+ (64bit)
• 4 GB RAM
• 4 cores CPU, 3.4 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo-boost)
• 3GB free hard disk space
• OpenGL 2.0 compatible GPU
• ARM processors not supported on Windows

Protection

• All Arturia software is protected by the Arturia Software Center.