Vocals are the emotional core of modern music. They can carry a melody, be reshaped into entirely new sounds, and give a track its own unique identity. Today's most forward-thinking records push the voice even further—into expressive layers, lush pads, and futuristic textures that bring a mix to life.
That's what we mean by hypermodern vocals: a new approach where the voice isn't just recorded, but redesigned. With Evoke, a single take can become the foundation for limitless new sounds.
The Core: Vocal Resynthesis
At the heart of Evoke is vocal resynthesis — a process that analyzes the incoming vocal and rebuilds it in real time using a spectral model. Instead of treating the recording as a fixed waveform, Evoke deconstructs the voice into its core elements: pitch, formants, tone, and movement. These elements are then reconstructed in a way that makes them fully flexible, giving you direct control over how the voice behaves and evolves.
You can use pitch tracking for clean harmonies, shift formants to explore new vocal identities, or modulate timbre to morph a take into something entirely different.
Step-by-Step: Creating Hypermodern Vocals
Here’s how to start exploring Evoke’s workflow:
1. Start with a single vocal
Import a dry vocal take, whether it’s a lead line or a simple phrase. Evoke’s engine adapts to every nuance, so even raw recordings become inspiring material.
2. Use resynthesis for instant transformations
Experiment with pitch tracking and timbre controls to push the performance into new territory. Evoke’s Character Modes let you choose how the resynthesis engine interprets the voice. From clean and natural, to harmonically rich, to heavily retextured. This is where a vocal starts to feel less like raw audio and more like an instrument you can design.
3. Add harmonies and stacks
With the built-in harmony engine, you can expand one voice into many. Quickly generate chords, wide layers, or stacked hooks that fill out a mix without complex routing.
4. Reshape tone, texture, and movement
Layer on Evoke’s effects and modulation to give vocals motion and depth. Here you can dial in anything from subtle, natural layers to glitchy, hypermodern soundscapes.
5. Explore presets for fast inspiration
Evoke includes over 350 presets designed by leading sound designers. Load one up, tweak a few parameters, and you’ll be inside a new vocal world within seconds.
Watch it in Action
To show you what’s possible, we’ve created five videos where we design hypermodern vocals in real time:
Creating stacked harmony
Combine tracked and fixed voices to create lush harmony stacks.
Futuristic lead vocals
Add modulation for expressive movement and timbral shifts. Apply the spectrum filter and morph the vocal further.
Vocal freezing & layering
Use freeze to create rhythmic layers underneath your main vocal.
Create a vocal pad
Create a pad layer with your vocal, turning up the blur parameter and applying spacious effects.
Evoke preset speed run
A quick runthrough of some select presets in Evoke.
Each video highlights a different side of Evoke’s resynthesis engine so you can see exactly how it works in a real session.
Try Evoke
Evoke is built to unlock new creative potential for your vocals, whether you’re a producer chasing futuristic layers or a vocalist looking for expressive transformations.
Get Evoke now and start shaping hypermodern vocals today.