Mu Voice is the award winning plug-in by Mu Technologies that
allows you to tune your vocal recordings, apply special effects and add natural
sounding harmonies when mixing your track. The proprietary spectral analysis and
synthesis techniques set new standards in vocal
processing providing a unique tool for your recording studio. Tedious pitch curve editing is history now.
An internal delay of only 5.8 ms makes Mu Voice the ideal vocal processor
to perform live on stage.
March 25, 2009:
Meet us at Frankfurt Music Messe where we will present Mu Voice 1.3.
From 1 to 4 of April. Booth C83 Hall 5.1 (which is the big KLEMM booth).
February 15, 2009:
Live Mu Voice demo at MUSIC ALIVE 2009, Novotel Rotterdam.
January 7, 2009:
Check out the Mu Voice 1.3 teaser, featuring Jan Eggermont on sax. We offer this video for
download in a wide range of formats for Mac, Windows, iPod, iPhone and cell phone.
Click here.
December 5, 2008:
Meet us at the NAMM show, Hall E, Booth 1111.
December 1, 2008: Beat Magazine publishes an "Interview of the Month" with Mu Technologies in its December issue.
Want to know who is behind the company? How we compare ourselves to the competition? ...
The interview is followed up by a review in the January issue where Mu Voice is granted the "Editor's Choice" award. Check it out ...
November 20, 2008:
Mu Voice Boxes. Available Now!
Boxed versions of Mu Voice are now available in pro audio stores in the US, Canada, Belgium and the Netherlands.
In Germany, Austria and Switzerland a German version is available with full translation of the manual.
Also for the Japanese market, both the box and manual are translated. Click here for the online order page.
Mu Wants You!
Are you a talented developer with a passion for audio and music? Are you interested in working for a young innovative company?
Contact us! (No freelancers.)
September 19, 2008:
Demo versions are available of Mu Voice for all platforms. Click here to download.
September 5, 2008:
Review in the September issue of Electronic Musician: - "A great-sounding plug-in for instant harmony." - by David E. Weiss
Read More, and check out the web clips ...
August 1, 2008: Gilles Dandelooy joins Mu Technologies. Welcome Gilles! Check out his myspace.
July 5, 2008:
Review in the July issue of Sound On Sound: - "For automated generation of double-tracking
or harmony backing vocals with the minimum user input, Mu Voice does a very solid job
and is worth auditioning alongside the more established competition." - by John Walden
Read More ...
July 4, 2008:
Tutorial Videos and PodCasts. Available Now!
Tuner and FX
Chord, Preset and Scheme
MIDI Controls
Configuring Ableton
We have 4 brand new video tutorials on our YouTube channel.
All videos can now be downloaded in high quality here.
Mu Technologies has fixed the user interface bug for the Audio Unit version of Mu
Voice on Mac PowerPC's (realeased as AU 1.1.3 and AU 1.2.1).
May 7, 2008:
Review in the May issue of Mix Magazine: - "An intelligent choice."-
by Jason Scott Alexander Read More ...
April 10, 2008:
Double Update! Mu Voice 1.1.2 and 1.2.0. Out Now!
Mu Voice 1.2.0, free updates available exclusively for licensed customers.
This version gives you full control from a MIDI keyboard, making it an excellent tool to perform live in a real-time host
like Ableton Live,
Apple MainStage, Max/MSP ...
The MIDI controls include chord recogntion, preset selection and chord scheme navigation from a configurable keyboard.
Another free update of Mu Voice is on the way and will be available as a download only. One of the goals of this release
is to allow full control from any MIDI controller so that it can even be used handsfree. A great update for sax and brass
players.
It features:
Drag-and-drop: Now you can just drop your XML files on the plug and it will load them
PlayList Configuration: Allows you to create a list of XML files for different songs.
Advanced MIDI Mapping: MIDI support is extensively elaborated. In 1.2 the plug-in could be
controlled with MIDI note events. This is now extended to Program changes and MIDI Controls.
You can map any MIDI controller to any set of parameters and define a mapping curve for each individual
parameter. Want to shift the pitch of one channel up and another channel down when pressing a foot pedal?
Want to go from one to three voices when turning a controller knob? It all can be done.
Chord Scheme Anchors: The chord scheme is extended with anchor points. For instance, you can
create anchor points for the beginning of each verse and chorus and use them to jump back and forth to the next
verse or chorus.
MIDI Navigation Controls: A set of navigation controls is provided to go to the next chord scheme position,
anchor point and XML file. Each control has a MIDI learn function to which you can assign a specific event to that
controller.
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Nashville, TN 37211, USA
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37217 Ziegenhagen, Deutschland
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Polhemsgatan 29, 112 30 Stockholm, Sweden.
India www.sudeepaudio.com
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Australia www.sound-music.com
Warehouse 25, Roberna Business Park, 26-28 Roberna Street, Moorabbin, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3189
Benelux and All Other Countries www.mu-technologies.com
Singelbeekstraat 121 3500 Hasselt, Belgium.
Intelligent Harmonizing:
An "intelligent" harmonizer takes into account the musical context of a piece
like chord and scale information. This is exactly what Mu Voice does. A four
track mixer allows to configure the voicing (1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th voice) and octave for
each channel.
Scale / Chord Selection:
The chord panel offers a straight-forward interface to select chords. When a given
key signature is selected, the diatonic series of chords is displayed. By clicking
the chords and modifiers, a chord is selected for harmonization.
Chord Scheme Editing:
Chords can be added to a scheme by pressing the "Insert" button or double clicking them.
By clicking an item in the scheme one can navigate through a chord scheme.
Mixer: The mixer combines all four track and allows to mute certain
channels with the [M]-button. The first channel can be put in bypass ([B]-button).
A pitch shift slider adds an extra interval to the channel. The range of the
shift slider is expressed in half tones can be quantized by pressing
the [Q]-button.
Tuner:
Mu Voice comes with a built-in tuner that has a parametric impact (0: no impact,
1: full impact). The tuner has two modes:
"Chromatic": tune to the closest half note
"Scale": tune to the closest note in the current scale
Channel FX: In addition to the voicing configurator, the gain control
and pitch shifter, each track has additional set of FX:
Pan: To abtain a realistic spatial positioning, the panner uses interaural
delays and an interaural gains that are based on psychoacoutic measurements. The
panning parameter corresponds with the angle relative to the listeners nose.
Humanizing: When the pitches of the harmonies are coupled too tight,
they might interfere and be perceived as a single distorted voice. The "humanization"
parameter solves this problem by adding very slight random pitch variations and
an additional delay.
Formants: The formants determine the "timbre" or "color" of the voice.
When the pitch of the Voice is altered, the formants are maintained. One can disable
the formant correction by pressing the green button next to the slider.
The formant slider controls a linear scaling of the formants and alters the colour of
the voice. By shifting the pitch up and scaling the formants, the voice of a women
can be changed to the voice of a young girl.
Filters: Mu Voice offers a number of filter presets; high-pass, band-pass,
comb-filters, notch filters ...
Harmonic EQ-ing: The proprietary spectral analysis technique on which Mu Voice
is based, allow to control the amplitude of each harmonic in the sound.
We named this effect harmonic EQ-ing. A number of presets are provided that illustrate
this unique feature.
Preset Management: To keep the large number of control parameters manageable,
all parameters that are not related to the chord scheme can be saved in presets. By selecting
a preset, configuring the parameters and pressing the 'Save'-button, the preset is stored. When
a preset is selected and the 'Apply'-button is pressed, the preset is loaded. Presets can also
be added to the chord scheme by pressing the 'Insert'-button.
Full Automation:
The progression of chords and presets can be fully automated in two steps
Write Mode: The plug-in is put in read-mode by pressing the [W]-button above the chord scheme.
When you select a starting point and press the right arrow on your keyboard, you will move
to the next position is the scheme while the timing of this event is recorded.
Read Mode: The plug-in is put in read-mode by pressing the [R]-button above the chord
scheme. The plug-in will synchronize itself to the host time so that it becomes fully
automated.
MIDI Controls (Since version 1.2.0 - free update for licensed customers)
The MIDI enabled version gives you full control from
a keyboard, making it an excellent tool to perform live. Use it from a real-time host
like Ableton Live,
Apple MainStage, ...
Key features:
A state-of-art chord recogntion system to control the scale and chord over time.
Preset Selection
Chord scheme navigation
Do not worry about the fact that your keyboard has only 48 keys, the plug-in can be configured for any
keyboard.
Sample Rate Support Mu Voice supports the following sample rates:
XML based file exchange: The plug-in state, chord scheme and presets can all be saved in
XML. This makes the configuration of your plug-in readable, editable and portable over
all platforms.
SIMD Optimizations: Mu Voice is highly optimized exploiting special processor instruction sets
like SSE for Intel processors and Altivec for PowerPC's.
Extra Info:
Mu Voice uses two data files, W.dat and Y.dat. When it can't find them is generates them
automatically. Therefore, when you launch the plug-in for the first time it will take a while
to appear. From there on it will launch smoothly.
Mu Voice works strictly for monophonic audio material.
