The Vocoder

For this project I need to take some sort of audio file and send it through the vocoder, and then fit that into a song. I have two audio files I cut from one of Winston Churchills first speeches as Prime Minister. Ive heard this speech a few other places and I just like it, I dont know why. It took forever to get a .wav file of it, I had to download it as an .MP3 at my house and use a program to convert it to .wav and then bring it to school. That was a good waste of my day. I ran those through two separate vocoders, since one line has a different tone to it and I tried to make them sound like the same line, but with a pause in between. I came up with a little piece using SimSynth and some drums. I would say that was influenced by NIN. I put the speech pieces in and Im planning on intensifying the patterns after Churchill says "heavy losses have been inflicted". When I put the speeches through the vocoder, I had a big problem. The vocoder had been set to produce a harsh effect, and then I started to get static throughout the song. So I had to set it to a gentler sound. Im hoping to use Sytrus like Mr. Rabuse mentioned to lay some long background notes ran through the vocoder in the more intense part of the song. Ill probably fade in some distorted note and then transpose a little.
I basically wasted my day today trying to move the song along and away from what I had already had. I had a nice pattern in SimSynth, but it would never fit into the song so I moved it into Slayer and edited it a little. The vocals are abour war so the song needs to be loud and crashing. Mr. Rabuse showed me how to modulate the X and Y parameters of the beginning snare drum beat which I Love, but Im having trouble recording the modulations so they automate during the song. I feel if I could get that down i would have no problem moving into a new part of the song. Im beginning to feel that I might be getting myself wrapped up in too many technical edits. Im hoping im able to finish this project without losing everything by just getting lost in confusion.
Well I feel like I havent worked on this project in like a month. I despise this project and I hope I can finish it up next class, whether I like the outcome or not. It needs to be done. I started the next project with Sytrus today, didnt even open this project...
Well I finally got around to finishing this off today. I gave up on recording the automation so I simply made a separate automation for the X and Y factors of the filter on the snare drum at the start. It builds up in pitch (bass is cut) then when the bass part and such comes in it quickly fades back and into the mix till you can barely hear it anymore. I also repeated pieces of the clips I found throughout the rest of the song and then it ends with "Inflicted, inflicted, inflicted...", not original but I like it and cant specifically name a song that does that off the top of my head so im not copying. Last I just messed around with the volume of some parts so you could at least hear everything. Glad I finally decided to finish this. Hope its okay.