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Introduction

Voice cloak Software is voice changer, a unique program for real-time voice alteration, online and offline.

Featuring advanced Pitch shifting algorithms, Voice cloak allows you to change the voice input into Variety of voice effects combinations.

Create a unique voice through adjustable sound effects and generate hundreds of new male or female voices for fun, education, and private use.

With the unique ability of Voice Cloak to alter not only a recording, but also audio playback streams, you can morph both Microphone audio streams and the sound files played back by an audio player on your machine.

With the adjustable Sound effects, you can create new voices: a deep thick male voice, a high pitch female voice, or a mimicking baby voices for the characters of your audio & video clips and movies.

Voice Cloak is a fun-filled, and cool featured tool, to disguise your voice and save any created nickvoice (voice Preset) by your own name. Next time if you want to create the same Voice again, all you have to do is to press the corresponding Voice preset button.

You can speak in a Camel voice (Low Pitch voice) or a Cat's Voice (high Pitch mild voice) in the Chatting Room. Take little time to adjust the effects options to add the just enough effects for the requisite Voice.

This way you can become totally anonymous for your friends in the Chat room.

User must have Voice Cloak already running before starting a voice conversation.

If you have MIDIMaster Karaoke (another crown in the blazeaudio's Cap), You can use Voice Cloak to sing karaoke songs by different voices, add effects from the rich library of audio effect, record and save your performance.

For the same song, you can save your performance by singing in a deep thick male voice, a high pitch female voice, or a mimicking baby voice.

Change the voices, record performance and have fun.


Apply Presets

Location: Presets Menu

These are the Voice Presets that are supplied with the program. Voice Presets are the set of particular effect combination for modifying the audio stream in some particular way. Program is bundled with Five voice Presets.

Now if you want to apply a set of effects you can choose the predefined presets. Simply click on one of the presets either through menu item or button will allow you to apply a set of effects.


Change Preset Name

Location: Presets Menu

You can specify your own names for the each preset. These names will appear on the preset buttons.

Renaming is quite simple. You can do either through menu item or by simply right clicking on it.

For Ex. You can rename it to "Too Much EQualization" or "Deep Male Voice" etc.


Restore Factory Default Settings For

Location: Presets Menu

By default there is a set of predefined Voice Presets and it is supplied with the program. You can change the property of these presets and modify them as per your requirements.

Sometime if you feel that you have lost the original preset theme, you can restore it very easily.

Simply click on the menu item or button "Restore Factory Default Settings For".

You will be presented with a list of presets. Choose a preset for which you want to restore the factory default settings.

Once you have chosen a preset, the factory default settings will be restored for that preset.

Now during chatting or recording as this button is pressed the original preset effects will be active and applied to the output audio streams.


Save Current Effect Settings As

Location: Presets Menu

By default there is a set of predefined Voice Presets and it is supplied with the program. You can change the property of these presets and modify them as per your requirements.

You can define your own set of Voice presets by adjusting the Effects buttons, Pitch shift slider and Equalizer sliders and also you can save it by your own name.

For Ex. If you want to create a preset of "Deep male voice",

Set the pitch shift slider to the negative region (Approx 4 division below the middle level).

Set the Equalizer on and 50hz EQ slider to -10db and 100Hz to approx -5db.

Now press the button or menu item "Save current effect settings as".

Now you will be presented with a list of presets. Choose a preset for which you want to save current settings. Once you chosen a preset the current effect settings will be saved for that preset.

Now during chatting or recording as this button is pressed the preset effects (you saved) will be active and applied to the output audio streams.


Apply/Change/Rename Sound Effect Files

Location: Sound Effects Menu

Voice cloak is supplied with 5 Sound effects files:

This feature is customizable. And with this you can specify your sound effect files and sound effect names.

In the preferences dialog (through File->Preferences menu) you can create your own sound effect, specify your own names for each sound effect you have created and specify the path of the files for sound effects.

When you click on any of the sound effect button these sound effect files will be mixed with the recording stream.

For Ex. you have created a sound effect having sreaming voice recorded in it and saved it by name “Sream.wav”. Now in the sound effect tab page, suppose you want this effect to appear at the first sound effect button. So specify the name of the effect (“Sream” in this case) and specify the path of the oriional file in the File path edit box just in front of the First sound effect.

Now when you press the “Screm” button appearing on the Voice cloak user interface, this wave file will play and will be added to the sound output stream. If you have “Monitoring your voice” button pressed, the File playback would be heared through the speakers.


Flanges

Location: Effects Menu

Shortcut: Ctrl+F

This effect alters your voice to produce an odd techno-space-age swooshing kind of sound.Flange works somewhat similarly to Echo -- the original sound is mixed with a delayed version of the same sound.  But the delay is extremely small.

This button has two states : On and Off

A. When the button is inactive, no effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will remain "Flange Off".

B. When the button is active, flange effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will be changed to "Flange On" with Green Text.


Choruses

Location: Effects Menu

Shortcut: Ctrl+C

The Chorus effect adds a second voice to your voice in a slightly shifted timeframe, resulting in an effect much like a chorus of more than one voice. This effect will turn your single voice into a chorus of many.

This button has two states : On and Off

A. When the button is inactive, no effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will remain "Chorus Off".

B. When the button is active, chorus effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will be changed to "Chorus On" with Green Text.


Robotvoices

Location: Effects Menu

Shortcut: Ctrl+R

This effect will give your voice a robotic, metallic sound.  Particularly effective with phrases such as "take me to your leader, human."An interesting effect that will distort your voice and make it sound similar to a robot

This button has two states : On and Off

A. When the button is inactive, no effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will remain "RobotVoice off".

B. When the button is active, a effect like Robot Voice will be applied on your voice and button caption will be changed to "RobotVoice On" with Green Text


Equalizes

Location: Effects Menu

Shortcut: Ctrl+L

This effect gives you equalizer control over your voice. This effect allows you to control the inherent 'loudness' of a sound. Use this effect to increase the loudness of a quiet sound.

This button has two states : On and Off

A. When the button is inactive, no effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will remain "Equalize Off".

B. When the button is active, Equalize effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will be changed to "Equalize On" with Green Text.


Pitchshifts

Location: Effects Menu

Shortcut: Ctrl+P

Pitch is the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration.This effect decreases or increases the pitch of your voice.Move the Pitch Slider to control the pitch Effect.

This button has two states : On and Off

A. When the button is inactive, no effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will remain "PitchShift off".

B. When the button is active, a effect after changing pitch, will be applied on your voice and button caption will be changed to "PitchShift On" with Green Text


Turn Off Effects

Location: Effects Menu

Shortcut: Ctrl+T

This feature allows you to turn off all the effects. After clicking on this button the effects will be turned off and any application doing recording or chatting will not be having any effects.


Echoes

Location: Effects Menu

Shortcut: Ctrl+E

This effect generates an echo in your voice by taking the original sound, reducing its volume, and mixing it back into your voice with a slight delay.

This button has two states: On and Off

A. When the button is inactive, no effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will remain "Echo Off".

B. When the button is active, echo effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will be changed to "Echo On" with Green Text.


Monitoring your voice

Location: File Menu

Shortcut: Ctrl+M

Use this button to determine that how your voice is effected by these effect. You can monitor your voice after applying any effect. You should use this button to preview your voice. Using this button you can see that how your voice is changed in less than a second. This button has two states Start and Stop.


Quick Help or What is this ?

You can view the Quick Help by clicking on the "Help/What is This" option. It will convert your cursor to "?" Mark.

Now clicking an item on User Interface, will show you the Help related to that control.

The Quick Help is also available through right mouse click on any control on Voice Cloak User Interface.


Voice Cloak offers

A Cool Voice Changer Software?

A Rich Effects Library, ready-to-use audio effects

Besides Cool effects Library, the pitch shift algorithm helps you change your voice into a comprehensive range of new voices of different "age" and "gender". An ultimate experience.

A combination of pitch shift, cool effects, and equalization settings for creating a new nickvoice preset and can be saved for future use. Voice Cloak program is currently delivered with five preset combinations and also you can create your own presets and save them for your convenience.

It can intercept and add effects to a real-time voice from a microphone, current recordings and to audio playback streams of a sound file being played on your machine.

A Volume slider and Level meters have been added to the Monitor panel. You can monitor the Levels and change the volume of the playback.

5-Band Graphic equalizer allows to smooth out the voice output.

An easy-to-use User Interface with professional look, Faster performance and Compatible with Microsoft Windows operating systems Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP.


Requirements

Operating System & Sound Card:  Voice cloak requires a PC running Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP; a sound card, Microphone and speakers. The sound card must be full duplex sound card. Normally the sound card comes with full duplex support.

Voice Cloak Launch : Voice Cloak is a program that intercepts incoming data, adds effects of different kinds and passes the data on to application that are recording or sending the data on as a part of an instant messaging program. So in order to use its effect functionality and other functionalities, user must have Voice Cloak already running before starting a recording session or voice conversation.


Installation

To install this Voice cloak, run the installation file that you downloaded or received on disk and then follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation. If you need help with this please consult your computer manual or send an e-mail to  support@blazeaudio.com


Starting Voice Cloak

To Start Voice Cloak simply click its icon in the Start Menu (the icon will usually be located under Start -> Programs -> Blaze Audio -> Voice Cloak, assuming that you selected the default icon location when you installed the program) or run the file "VoiceCloak.exe" in the directory where you installed Voice Cloak.

You can also run Voice cloak by double click on the Voice Cloak icon created on your Desktop.


Preferences

Location: File Menu

Shortcut: Ctrl+P

Click the File/Preferences to open up the Preferences dialog box.

There are three sections in the Preferences

General,

Sound Effects and

Voice Presets sections.

General:

Sound devices:

This option lets you select the Playback and Recording device that you want to use. This is useful in a multiple sound device setup, where a system may have multiple multimedia devices installed. All the sound devices installed o your machine would be listed in the combo box lying there.

Choose the sound device of your choice in the combobox and click OK.

Check box "Minimize to system tray"

Configure the program so that whenever you minimize it, program will be minimized to the system tray. This option is very useful, Program will be running in the background and whatever you will speak into Microphone will be processed through the Voice Cloak and Morph it according to the current settings of Effects in Voice Cloak.

By default, this option is unchecked.

Sound effects:

Voice cloak is supplied with 5 Sound effects files:

Here you can specify five sound effects names in the Name edit box and can specify the file path for these effects in the File path edit box in front of each sound effect name.

This is customizable. You can create your own sound effect, specify your own names for each sound effect you have created and specify the path of the files for sound effects.

These files will be mixed with recording stream when you click on sound effect button.

For Ex. you have created a sound effect having screaming voice recorded in it and saved it by name “Sream.wav”. Now in the sound effect tab page, suppose you want this effect to appear at the first sound effect button. So specify the name of the effect (“Scream” in this case) and specify the path of the original file in the File path edit box just in front of the First sound effect.

Now when you press the “Scream” button appearing on the Voice cloak user interface, this wave file will play and will be added to the sound output stream. If you have “Monitoring your voice” button pressed, the File playback would be heard through the speakers.

Voice Presets:

These are the Voice Presets that are supplied with the program. Voice Presets are the set of particular effect combination for modifying the audio stream in some particular way.

Program is bundled with Five voice Presets.

You can create your own set of Voice presets by adjusting the Effects buttons, Pitch shift slider and Equalizer sliders and also you can save it by your own name.

For Ex. you want to create "Deep male voice",

Set the pitch shift slider to the negative region (Approx. 4 division below the middle level).

Set the Equalizer on and 50hz EQ slider to -10db and 100Hz to approx. -5db.

Now press the button "Save current effect settings as" and choose the Preset button where you want this setting to be saved.

Now during Chat or recording press this button, as the button is pressed the preset effects will be active and will be applied to the output audio streams


Exit

Location: File Menu

Shortcut: Ctrl+X

Click this to terminate the program.

This is the preferred method to end the program. When you click this option, the program will be closed.


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All Controls

Location: View Menu

Shortcut: Ctrl+W

Voice Cloak has two view options.

A. Minimum Controls

B. All Controls

When you first time launch Voice Cloak it is default opened with Minimum controls. In this view Voice cloak is not showing the Effects buttons and the Equalizer sliders.

Click in the View/All Controls and Voice Cloak will be opened up with All Controls and the Menu option in view Menu will change to "Minimum controls"

Again exercise the option "View/Minimum controls" and the View will again changed to "Minimum controls".


Controls

When you first time launch Voice Cloak it is default opened with Minimum controls. In this view Voice cloak is not showing the Effects buttons and the Equalizer sliders.

Click in the View/All Controls and Voice Cloak will be opened up with All Controls and the Menu option in view Menu will change to "Minimum controls"

Again exercise the option "View/Minimum controls" and the View will again changed to "Minimum controls".


Help

This menu option has the following sub-options.

1) Help Index   	(Shortcut: function key <F1>)

2) Help Contents

3) Contact Blaze Audio Support

4) Online Tutorials

5) About...

The help documentation is compatible with the Windows Help system. It follows the popular hierarchical chapter-and-topic metaphor.


Monitoring Your Voice

Monitor your Voice

Record Source

Recording Level Slider


Effects

Echo

Flange

Chorus

Robot Voice

Equalize

Pitch Shift

Sound Effects

Voice Presets


About Blaze Audio

Blaze Audio is the consumer software products division of Singing Electrons, Inc.

Singing Electrons, Inc., is a world leader in the development of applications, drivers, VxDs, and other software for Microsoft Windows and Linux. Our clients have included Acer, AT&T, Broderbund, Disney Software, Logitech, Lucasfilm Games, Motorola, Phillips, QSound, Samsung, Waves, Yahoo!, and many others.

Our expertise in systems level software development has enabled us to create a line of multimedia products for end users that go far beyond other products. These include sound enhancement programs, wave and MIDI editors, and sound effect generators.

Our Services Include the Following:

Multimedia Audio Drivers

DirectSound and DirectSound3D drivers and apps

WDM drivers

USB hardware, firmware, and drivers

Rapid Application Development and Prototyping

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Communications Drivers and Protocols

DMA Programming, including full duplex DMA, for both ISA and PCI

File System, Keyboard, and Printer Hooks

Detection and direct programming of non-Intel CPUs

Hardware Emulation and Contention Management

Security and Locking Products

Our Products Include the Following:

RipEditBurn is a complete wave editing, ripping, and burning solution

MailMagic provides instant messaging for anyone with a POP-3 e-mail account.

Ventriloquist throws your voice across the Internet

AudioMagic EQ improves the sound of your PC!

WebEQ adds EQ (equalization) to web audio

Wave Creator is a complete wave editing solution

VoiceSFX transforms sounds to make and enhance sound effects

      Voice Cloak Add real-time effects to your voice or audio playback on your machine.

Audio Control Center is a complete stereo rack program

MIDIMaster is a MIDI player and mixer

Power Record, A VCR for radio and Internet radio- instant and timed recording

Wave Breaker, Make splitting your recording into tracks quick and easy with Wave Breaker

Recent Projects:

AudioMagic - A unique product that improves CD, wave, streaming, and DirectSound audio on your PC. Soon to be released at our web site.

VLSI/QSound- Windows NT and 9x drivers for the VLSI Thunderbird PCI audio chipset currently being distributed by Aztech.

Powerleap Products- NT driver and Win 95 VxD and Windows application for detecting and allowing the user to configure non-Intel (AMD, Cyrix, etc.) CPUs.

Leapfrog Toys- tools to edit, process, and compact audio data used in ROM-based stand-alone games.

Standard Microsystems Corporation (SMC)- hardware, firmware, and software for a USB audio device

Advanced Medical Information Technology- Win 9x, NT, and Linux drivers for a proprietary multiport serial board used in medical and industrial applications.

AT&T- WATSON Voice Control for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator uses AT&T’s WATSON speech recognition and text-to-speech engine to voice-enable Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. Version 1.0 is currently shipping on NEC and AST computers; version 1.1 is in retail channels.

OPTi/ECTIVA- Win NT and 95 driver development for new audio chipset.

Acer - SoftQ for Windows 95 and 3.1 applied QSound Labs, Inc.’s patented 3D audio enhancement to digital and CD audio in real time using the host CPU for processing.

Samsung- Windows Multimedia Audio drivers for the Samsung OmniWave General MIDI audio chipset.

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Monitor your Voice

Use this button to determine that how your voice is effected by these effect. You can monitor your voice after applying any effect. You should use this button to preview your voice. Using this button you can see that how your voice is changed in less than a second. This button has two states Start and Stop.


Change your voice while chatting

The Voice Cloak must be running before you launch a Voice Conference in Messaging Application like Yahoo messenger or MSN or AOL Messenger.

Launch the Voice Cloak.

Now launch the Messaging application (Yahoo messenger or MSN or AOL Messenger) and open a Voice conference session.

Choose the effects of your choice and turn them "On" on Voice Cloak.

You can apply a set of effects (specified in effects preset) or you can also add a single effect to your voice.

For Ex. to add Pitch shift effect:

Turn the "Pitch shift" On and increase the slider to its maximum level.

If the Yahoo messenger is ready for the Voice conference, speak in to Microphone.

The Voice Cloak will add the effects to your voice and your counterpart will hear your voice with the effects added to it.

Now experiment with the Effects combination and have fun while chatting.


 Add effects to your Voice

VoiceCloak not only works with messaging application but also it works as real-time effect processor. Voice Cloak allows you to modify your voice system wide.

In order to see how the effects will work you can turn the Monitoring On, to monitor the effects added to your voice.

Once you have adjusted the effects as per your requirements, turn the Monitoring Off and have fun doing chatting or recording your Voice.

To apply effects over the input streams (Recordings):

Launch the Voice Cloak.

Launch any Recording Application or Messaging application.

Choose the effects of your choice and turn them "On" on Voice Cloak.

You can apply a set of effects (specified in effects preset) or you can also add a single effect to your voice.

For Ex. If you want your voice to be modified like a Women Voice, you can add High Pitch shift effect:

Turn the "Pitch shift" On and increase the slider to its maximum level.

Now the input audio streams will be added with high Pitch Effect and the audio recorded in the recording application will be having high pitch voice.

The recorded audio will sound as if sounds a woman voice.


Apply Voice Presets

Enjoy Voice Cloak by adding Voice Presets to the audio streams. The voice cloak is bundled with a set of presets.

Adding Voice Preset is as simple as to turn a button on.

For example:

Hilda : Launch Voice Cloak. Launch any other application (messaging or recording). Turn the "Hilda" button "On". Now input audio streams will be modified with the set of effects provided in Hilda preset.

Tiffany : Launch Voice Cloak. Launch any other application (messaging or recording). Turn the "Tiffany" button "On". Now input audio streams will be modified with the set of effects provided in Tiffany preset.

Similarly you can apply other Voice Presets.


Mix sound Effects

You can Mix Sound effects while chatting in some messaging application or while recording in some recording Application.

All you have to do is to Press one of the "Sound Effects" buttons on the Voice Cloak User Interface. The File specified for that button will be mixed with the input audio streams.

The sound effect mixing does not depend upon the record source you are using at any point in time.

Sound Effect Mixing will only work when a recording is going on. It does not work for the recordings that are started after pressing the "Sound Effect" button.

Voice cloak is supplied with 5 Sound effects files:

Here you can specify five sound effects names in the Name edit box and can specify the file path for these effects in the File path edit box in front of each sound effect name.

To Mix Sound effect file in recording, please do follow the following steps:

Open Voice Cloak.

Launch some messaging application (Yahoo messenger, MSN or AOL Messenger)

Start a voice Conference session in messaging application.

Now Press one of the "Sound Effects" buttons of your choice.

The Sound effect file specified for that button would be mixed with the Input audio streams and your counterpart can hear your voice with that Sound effect file mixed.

Similarly you can record the audio with the Sound effect files mixed.


Mix your own Sound Effects

Voice cloak is supplied with 5 Sound effects files:

Here you can specify five sound effects names in the Name edit box and can specify the file path for these effects in the File path edit box in front of each sound effect name.

This is customizable. You can create your own sound effect, specify your own names for each sound effect you have created and specify the path of the files for sound effects.

These files will be mixed with recording stream when you click on sound effect button.

For Ex. you have created a sound effect having "Ghost sound" or "Laughing sound".

Now in the sound effect tab page, suppose you want this effect to appear at the first sound effect button.

Launch Voice Cloak, Open File/Preferences

Go to the Sound Effects Tab page.

Specify the name of the effect (“Ghost Effect” in this case) and specify the path of this Wave file (Ghost sound.wav) in the File path edit box just in front of the First sound effect.

Now when you press the “Ghost Effect" button appearing on the Voice cloak user interface, this wave file will play and will be added to the sound output stream. If you have “Monitoring On" then you can preview the sound effect.


Preview the Effects

You can Monitor the effect added to your Voice, by turning the "Monitor Your Voice" button On.

For Example.

Launch Voice Cloak, select Microphone record source.

Turn the "Monitor Your Voice" button On.

Apply some Effect or predefined preset.

Speak in to the Microphone, and hear the voice with effects in the Speakers.

Once your are satisfied with the effects of your choice, you may choose to turn Off the Monitoring.

Monitoring is provided hear to preview your voice with effects. Even if the Monitoring is Off, you can add effects while chatting or recording in to another application, and enjoy with Voice Cloak.


Create scary and funny sound effects and Burn a CD

Blazeaudio has created RipEditBurn, a great Sound editing, Ripping CDs and Burning CDs software. You can use this product for creating your own sound effect files.

Record your own voice with effects:

For Example, You want to create sound effects files having your own voice recorded in High Pitch Female voice (if you are a male) or Low Pitch Male voice (if you are female).

Please follow following steps to cerate such files.

Launch Voice Cloak, Select Microphone record source, Turn the "Pitch-Shift" effect On and Move the Pitch slider to Highest level.

Launch RipEditBurn software, and press record button.

Now speak in the Microphone, your vocals would be recorded with High Pitch effect in to the RipEditBurn.

Adjust the Pitch-Shift effect and other effects to create a great effect and enjoy.

Record your voice with songs:

For example if you want to record your voice with a song you can use the VoiceCloak and REB combination.

Specify the song file (the song must be a wave file) in one of the sound effects. Start Recording in REB. Start speaking in microphone. Press the Sound Effect button. Now you will be able to record the your voice with original song. Even you can add effects to your voice.

Not only this you can remove vocals from existing song with RipEditBurn Vocal Reducer tool and use RipEditBurn and VoiceCloak combination to record your own voice with song music.

Burn a CD :

Once you have recorded your performance with different effects and created a set of your Sound effects Files. You can burn your CD using RipEditBurn.

With RipEditBurn you won't need two or even three separate programs for ripping, editing, and burning as you probably do know -- RipEditBurn is totally integrated and easy-to-use, shortening your learning curve and making it as easy as possible to manage and manipulate your music collection. And we've got great features too -- fade, equalization, volume normalization, special effects and more. Even if you've never burned a CD before, we're making it easy to learn.

RipEditBurn has Vocal Reducer, which will reduce or even eliminate vocals from recorded music using sophisticated equalization and center channel removal technologies.

Our Tutorials section has step-by-step instructions for converting your tapes and records to CD, creating mix CDs, and more. If you've just joined the computer audio world, you can learn the basics at the Beginner's Starting Point. Blaze Audio will have you dancing to your own custom music CDs in no time!

Record your voice with karoake :

If you have MIDIMaster Karaoke (another crown in the blazeaudio's Cap), You can use Voice Cloak to sing karaoke songs by different voices, add effects from the rich library of audio effect, record and save your performance.

For the same song, you can save your performance by singing in a deep thick male voice, a high pitch female voice, or a mimicking baby voice.

Change the voices, record performance and have fun.

Besides it, Blaze Audio Provide you a rich Library of great Sound effects created by professionals.

Click here for more information.

www.blazeaudio.com


Record Source

A short caption just above this button indicates the current recording source, from where your input is coming. If you want to change this recording source then click this button.


Recording Level Slider

Use this slider control to adjust the level of the incoming (source) signal. Use this in conjunction with the LED Level meter (Volume Display) for distortion-free voice.


Echo

This effect generates an echo in your voice by taking the original sound, reducing its volume, and mixing it back into your voice with a slight delay.

This button has two states: On and Off

A. When the button is inactive, no effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will remain "Echo Off".

B. When the button is active, echo effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will be changed to "Echo On" with Green Text.


Center

Click on the Center button to rest the Equalizer bands to the "Zero Level".

Now all the EQ Sliders will reset to center position and EQ effect button would cahnge to "Off" state.


Flange

This effect alters your voice to produce an odd techno-space-age swooshing kind of sound.Flange works somewhat similarly to Echo -- the original sound is mixed with a delayed version of the same sound.  But the delay is extremely small.

This button has two states : On and Off

A. When the button is inactive, no effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will remain "Flange Off".

B. When the button is active, flange effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will be changed to "Flange On" with Green Text.


Chorus

The Chorus effect adds a second voice to your voice in a slightly shifted timeframe, resulting in an effect much like a chorus of more than one voice. This effect will turn your single voice into a chorus of many.

This button has two states : On and Off

A. When the button is inactive, no effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will remain "Chorus Off".

B. When the button is active, chorus effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will be changed to "Chorus On" with Green Text.


Robot Voice

This effect will give your voice a robotic, metallic sound.  Particularly effective with phrases such as "take me to your leader, human."An interesting effect that will distort your voice and make it sound similar to a robot

This button has two states : On and Off

A. When the button is inactive, no effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will remain "RobotVoice off".

B. When the button is active, a effect like Robot Voice will be applied on your voice and button caption will be changed to "RobotVoice On" with Green Text


Equalize

This effect gives you equalizer control over your voice. This effect allows you to control the inherent 'loudness' of a sound. Use this effect to increase the loudness of a quiet sound.

This button has two states : On and Off

A. When the button is inactive, no effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will remain "Equalize Off".

B. When the button is active, Equalize effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will be changed to "Equalize On" with Green Text.


Pitch Shift

Pitch is the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration.This effect decreases or increases the pitch of your voice.Move the Pitch Slider to control the pitch Effect.

This button has two states : On and Off

A. When the button is inactive, no effect will be applied on your voice and button caption will remain "PitchShift off".

B. When the button is active, a effect after changing pitch, will be applied on your voice and button caption will be changed to "PitchShift On" with Green Text


Sound Effects

Voice cloak is supplied with 5 Sound effects files:

Here you can specify five sound effects names in the Name edit box and can specify the file path for these effects in the File path edit box in front of each sound effect name.

This is customizable. You can create your own sound effect, specify your own names for each sound effect you have created and specify the path of the files for sound effects.

These files will be mixed with recording stream when you click on sound effect button.

For Ex. you have created a sound effect having sreaming voice recorded in it and saved it by name “Sream.wav”. Now in the sound effect tab page, suppose you want this effect to appear at the first sound effect button. So specify the name of the effect (“Sream” in this case) and specify the path of the oriional file in the File path edit box just in front of the First sound effect.

Now when you press the “Screm” button appearing on the Voice cloak user interface, this wave file will play and will be added to the sound output stream. If you have “Monitoring your voice” button pressed, the File playback would be heared through the speakers.


Voice Presets

These are the Voice Presets that are supplied with the program. Voice Presets are the set of particular effect combination for modifying the audio stream in some particular way.

Program is bundled with Five voice Presets.

you can create your own set of Voice presets by adjusting the Effects buttons, Pitch shift slider and Equalizer sliders and also you can save it by your own name.

For Ex. you want to create "Deep male voice",

Set the pitch shift slider to the negative region (Approx 4 division below the middle level).

Set the Equalizer on and 50hz EQ slider to -10db and 100Hz to approx -5db.

Now press the button "Save current effect settings as" and choose the Preset button where you want this setting to be saved.

Now during Chat or recording press this button, as the button is pressed the preset effects will be active and will be applied to the output audio streams