Syd Vocoder is a free vocoder VST3 with the sound of the Nord Micro Modular
Syd Vocoder is a vocoder plugin with a synth inside. Hold a chord on your MIDI keyboard, sing or talk into a microphone, and the synth takes on the shape of your words. It rebuilds the vocoder of the Clavia Nord Micro Modular, a virtual analog synth from the late 1990s, as closely as I could get it, and its 21 presets are vocoder patches from that time.
Download Syd Vocoder
There is a zip for Windows, a zip with an installer for Mac and a tar.gz for Linux. Each one holds the plugin, INSTALL.txt and the manual. The install steps are further down this page.
Windows 64-bit: VST3 · macOS 11 or later, Apple silicon and Intel: VST3 with an installer · Linux 64-bit, Intel or AMD, glibc 2.35 or later: VST3 · Tested in Ableton Live 12.4 on Windows and macOS · No Audio Unit, so not for Logic Pro
Sound demo
Three minutes of Syd Vocoder in Ableton Live: the built-in synth played from a MIDI keyboard, a voice on the sidechain, and the presets one after another.
Why I rebuilt the Micro Modular vocoder
About twenty years ago I bought a second-hand Clavia Nord Micro Modular, a synth from the late 1990s. It is a virtual analog modular synthesizer: a digital box that imitates analog synths, with modules you patch together on a computer screen. You can build almost anything with it, but for years I have used mine for one job only, the vocoder voices in my electro. To my ears no other vocoder sounds as good.
I wanted that sound in a plugin, so I could put it on any track without cables and a box from the last century. It took me a long time to rebuild the Micro Modular vocoder as exactly as I could, without reusing any of Clavia's code. Then I converted the vocoder patches from my Micro Modular to the plugin: patches I downloaded from the internet a long time ago, and my own. The presets still carry the names of the people who made them.
The name is a small joke. Nord is Swedish for north. Syd is south.
What a vocoder does
A vocoder needs two signals. Your voice, the modulator, shapes the sound. A synth, the carrier, gives it pitch. The vocoder splits both into frequency bands, measures how loud your voice is in each band, and opens the same bands of the synth by that much. What comes out is the synth, speaking your words in the notes you play. This is the robot voice of electro, from Kraftwerk onwards.
Most vocoder plugins need a separate synth routed in as the carrier. Syd Vocoder has the synth built in, the way a patch on the Micro Modular did. You play it from a MIDI keyboard and sing into a microphone at the same time. There is no patching: you pick a preset and shape it with seven knobs and a Morph knob, and the labels above the knobs change with the preset.
As close to the Nord as I could get
The vocoder has 16 bands, like the Nord's. Each band has its own envelope follower, fast in the high bands and slower in the low ones: the top band rises in about 0.4 ms and falls in about 8 ms, the lowest band takes about 5 and 67 ms. The optional high-frequency emphasis on the voice is there too.
The plugin computes in 24-bit fixed point, like the original hardware, with the same rounding and the same small side effects. One you may notice: after very loud input, the envelope of the lowest band can stay stuck at a tiny value, so a trace of the synth leaks through about 47 dB down. The Nord does that as well, so I left it in. The low bands also react up to about 7 ms later than the high bands, as on the Nord. That is part of the sound.
The sounds around the vocoder come from the patches themselves: the oscillators, envelopes, filters, compressors, gates, phaser and chorus they used in the late 1990s. Knobs glide to a new value in small steps the way the Nord moved its parameters, voices go to notes by the Nord's own rules, Morph works the same way, and every preset load starts the oscillators at random phases, as on the hardware.
Around all of that sits the HARDWARE switch. In its default position, Micro, your voice goes through a model of the Micro Modular's 16-bit input converter, hard clipping included, and the output through a model of its 18-bit output converter. More on that below.
The panel
Everything sits on one red panel. Hover over a control, or turn it, and the second line of the green display shows its value, for example "Release: 68".
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Preset display | Number, name and author of the preset. Click it, or the menu button, for the list of all 21. The arrows step to the previous or next preset. Hosts can also pick them as programs. |
| VOICES | How many voices the synth plays, 1 to 32. A new instance starts with 4, enough for chords. Set 1 for single lines, as most patches did on a Micro Modular. It stays put when you change the preset. |
| Seven knobs | What they do depends on the preset; the label above each knob names it. They run from 0 to 127, like a Nord's. Double-click returns a knob to the preset's value. Your host sees them as Knob 1 to Knob 7, for automation and MIDI mapping. |
| MORPH | Moves a group of parameters at once, each by its own amount, as on the Nord. In six presets the mod wheel or aftertouch plays it too, and an amber arc around the knob shows where it is. |
| HARDWARE | Micro puts the model of the Micro Modular's converters around the vocoder; Off gives a clean digital path. The vocoder and synth are the same in both. |
| DIAG | Shows what the plugin gets from the host: sample rate, MIDI events, the level on each input and where the voice is read from. The place to look when you hear nothing. |
| INPUT and CLIP | The level of your voice into the vocoder, -24 to +24 dB. CLIP lights for half a second whenever the input clips. |
| OUTPUT | A clean gain after the vocoder, -24 to +24 dB. Every preset is calibrated to peak between -6 and -3 dBTP at 0 dB, so switching presets does not jump in level. |
Setting it up in Ableton Live
Syd Vocoder is an instrument. It goes on a MIDI track, and your voice comes in through its sidechain. So you need two tracks: an audio track for the microphone and a MIDI track with Syd Vocoder. These steps were tested in Live 12.4 on Windows and macOS.
First check three things in Live's Settings. Under Audio, your audio interface is the input and output device. Under Link, Tempo & MIDI, Track is switched on for your keyboard. Under Plug-Ins, Use VST3 Plug-In System Folders is on; click Rescan, and Syd Vocoder appears in the browser under Plug-Ins, VST3, Lloyd Stellar.
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Make a voice track
Insert an audio track. Set Audio From to Ext. In and below it the input your microphone is on: "1" for input 1, not the pair "1/2". Set Monitor to In. Cannot see these? Press Ctrl+Alt+I on Windows or Cmd+Option+I on a Mac.
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Make an instrument track
Insert a MIDI track and drag Syd Vocoder onto it. Arm the track, or set its Monitor to In, so it plays from your keyboard.
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Switch on the sidechain
In the title bar of the Syd Vocoder device, click the small sidechain toggle and switch Sidechain on. Set its Audio From to the voice track. Choose Post FX if you put a compressor or EQ on the voice.
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Play and sing
Hold a note or a chord and sing. If you hear nothing, click DIAG: "Voice read from" should say Main input, that line should show a level while you sing, and the MIDI count should go up when you play. Live hands the sidechain to the plugin on its main input, so Main input is right.
With the voice track on Monitor In you also hear your dry voice. If you do not want that, set the voice track's Audio To to Sends Only; the sidechain still gets it. Use headphones: everything that reaches the microphone opens the vocoder bands, your speakers included.
To record, record your voice on the audio track and the notes on the MIDI track. On playback the recorded voice feeds the sidechain, so you can still change the preset and the knobs afterwards. When you are happy, record the Syd Vocoder track to a new audio track, or freeze and flatten it.
In other DAWs, and on Linux
Only Ableton Live 12.4 has been tested so far, on Windows and macOS. Live does not run on Linux, and the Linux build has not been tried in a host yet. The plugin has a stereo main input and a stereo sidechain. When the host switches the sidechain on, the voice is read from the sidechain; otherwise from the main input. The left channel carries the voice, so a mono voice track is fine. In every host, the instrument track also needs MIDI from your keyboard.
| Host | Status | How it should work |
|---|---|---|
| Ableton Live 12 | Tested | The steps above. |
| Reaper | Untested | Put Syd Vocoder on a track that receives MIDI. Send the voice track to it, to channels 1/2 for the main input, or to 3/4 and use the plugin's sidechain pins. |
| Bitwig Studio | Untested | Put it on an instrument track and pick the voice track as the sidechain source in the device. |
| Cubase | Untested | Put it on an instrument track, activate its side-chain input in the plugin window and add the voice track as the side-chain source. |
| FL Studio | Untested | Load it as a generator. Route the mixer track with the microphone to Syd Vocoder's mixer track as a sidechain, then select that sidechain as the plugin's input in the wrapper. |
| Logic Pro | No | Logic only loads Audio Units, and Syd Vocoder is a VST3. |
Tried it in another host? Tell me what worked through the contact page.
The 21 presets
Twenty presets are based on Nord Modular vocoder patches from the late 1990s, and seven of those come from the factory bank of the Micro Modular. Deep Vocoder is my version of WP Vocoder, a patch by an unknown author, and it loads when the plugin starts. Noise Choir is new: I built it from the same building blocks.
"Drone" means the synth keeps playing at the last note after you let go, as in the original patch, and the vocoder lets it through whenever you sing. Play a chord once, then just sing. "Keys" means the sound closes when you release the keys.
| Preset | By | What you hear |
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| 1Deep VocoderLloyd Stellar, after WP Vocoder | Lloyd Stellar, after WP Vocoder (unknown author) | Two pulse waves with an envelope and chorus, two octaves below the keys you play.Keys · no Morph |
| 22vocringmodRoland Kuit, after Kees van der Maarel | Roland Kuit, after Kees van der Maarel | A voice compressor and a vocoder with chorus, plus a ring-modulated copy of your voice that an LFO pans from side to side.Keys (the ring path sounds whenever you speak) · no Morph |
| 3BasicVocoderjsd | jsd | An oscillator and a detuned pulse, then a phaser and chorus.Drone · no Morph |
| 4ChordVocClavia, Micro Modular factory bank | Clavia, Micro Modular factory bank | Four saws on one key play a chord, with chorus and an expander that keeps it quiet between phrases.Drone · Morph: vibrato, also on the mod wheel |
| 5cylon vocoderunknown author | unknown author | One oscillator whose output opens with your voice, not with the keys. Mixes both input channels.Opens with the voice · Morph: pulse-width modulation |
| 6HarmonySistersTommi Lindell | Tommi Lindell | A formant oscillator with vibrato and a second oscillator through three formant filters, with voice EQ and a compressor.Keys · Morph: second oscillator an octave down |
| 7keyedvocoderunknown author | unknown author | One oscillator, then a low shelving EQ, an envelope on the keys and chorus. A Dry/Wet knob mixes in your voice.Keys · no Morph |
| 8ManhattanTransClavia, Micro Modular factory bank | Clavia, Micro Modular factory bank | Four saws; the loudness of your voice moves the pitch of two of them in steps. Gate on the output.Drone · Morph: vibrato, also on the mod wheel |
| 9MultiVocRob Hordijk | Rob Hordijk | A pulse wave plus two squares divided from it, one and two octaves lower, which gives an organ-like sound. One vocoder for all voices.Keys · no Morph |
| 10Noise ChoirLloyd Stellar | Lloyd Stellar | Two coloured noises make a held chord breathe without a voice. Sing and the breath turns into words. Phaser and chorus, one vocoder for all voices.Keys · Morph: pulse width |
| 11NoiseVocClavia, Micro Modular factory bank | Clavia, Micro Modular factory bank | Noise as the carrier: a whisper. The keys do nothing. Chorus and an expander.Drone · no Morph |
| 12PulseVocClavia, Micro Modular factory bank | Clavia, Micro Modular factory bank | Three pulse waves, chorus and an expander.Drone · Morph: deeper, faster vibrato, also on the mod wheel |
| 13RobotVocClavia, Micro Modular factory bank | Clavia, Micro Modular factory bank | A saw at one fixed pitch, whatever key you play, with a wobble LFO and some high-passed dry voice mixed in.Drone · no Morph |
| 14SawVocClavia, Micro Modular factory bank | Clavia, Micro Modular factory bank | Three detuned saws, chorus and an expander.Drone · Morph: deeper, faster vibrato, also on the mod wheel |
| 15SquaresSkeleton | Skeleton | Two pulse oscillators with vibrato and pulse-width modulation from two LFOs, plus noise.Drone · no Morph |
| 16unvoicedJames J. Clark | James J. Clark | Switches from a three-note pulse chord to noise on "s", "f" and other unvoiced sounds, so they come through. Voice compressor, glide always on.Drone · Morph: pulse width |
| 17UnvoicedVocoder02James Clark | James Clark | A variant of unvoiced that blends between pulses and noise instead of switching. One pulse stays at E4.Drone · Morph: width and level of the third pulse |
| 18VC_WanVocoder2Wan Kemper | Wan Kemper | Three oscillators with an envelope, voice EQ and a gate, a compressor on the output. One vocoder for all voices, pitch bend over 12 semitones.Keys · Morph: vibrato, also on the mod wheel |
| 19VocalEncoder03James Clark | James Clark | A square and two pulse waves with pulse-width modulation, and a compressed voice.Drone · no Morph |
| 20Vocoder 2krc | krc | A pulse wave whose width follows your voice, one octave below the keys, with glide when you play legato. Mixes both input channels.Keys · Morph: vibrato, also on aftertouch |
| 21WierdAccentClavia, Micro Modular factory bank | Clavia, Micro Modular factory bank | Three pulse waves whose pitch follows the loudness of your voice instead of the keys, with a glide.Drone · Morph: moves the pitch up |
The manual lists the seven knobs of every preset. The names are the patch names as their makers spelled them, WierdAccent included.
Playing it
Syd Vocoder listens on all MIDI channels. Velocity does nothing, as in all the original patches.
| MIDI | What it does |
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| Notes | Play the synth. |
| Pitch bend | Bends by the range of the original patch: 12 semitones in VC_WanVocoder2; 2 in cylon vocoder, HarmonySisters, MultiVoc, Noise Choir and Squares; 1 in the others. |
| Mod wheel (CC 1) | Morph in ChordVoc, ManhattanTrans, PulseVoc, SawVoc and VC_WanVocoder2. |
| Aftertouch | Morph in Vocoder 2. |
| Sustain pedal (CC 64) | Holds released notes until the pedal goes up. |
| CC 120, CC 123 | All sound off and all notes off: release every note. |
With VOICES at 1 the synth is monophonic: a new note takes over, and it does not go back to an older key you still hold. With more voices you play chords. A new note goes to the voice that has been free longest, and when all are busy it usually takes the oldest one. Those are the Nord's rules. Most presets run a complete vocoder for each voice, as the Nord did, and play up to 16 voices. Noise Choir and VC_WanVocoder2 share one vocoder between all voices and play up to 32.
In the drone presets every voice drones, and a voice that has not played a note yet sounds at the start note stored in the patch, often E4. With VOICES at 4 you may hear more pitches than you played. Play a chord with as many notes as there are voices, or set VOICES to 1. In NoiseVoc, RobotVoc and WierdAccent the keys do not set the pitch at all, so these get louder with more voices.
HARDWARE: Micro or Off
The HARDWARE button decides what sits around the vocoder. The synth and the vocoder in the middle are the same in both positions. Micro is the default and models the converters of the Micro Modular.
On the way in, Micro follows the 16-bit input converter: a high-pass filter that removes DC, hard clipping at full scale, the converter's anti-alias filter, converter noise at -92 dBFS, and 16-bit resolution at a 48 kHz converter rate. INPUT works like the microphone preamp in front of the real unit. Below full scale your voice only gets the 16 bits and a faint hiss; above it, the converter clips hard. Clipping adds harmonics that the vocoder bands pick up, and some presets sound better driven a little. Watch CLIP and choose by ear.
On the way out, Micro follows the 18-bit output converter: the Micro's master volume, 18-bit resolution, a slight treble roll-off (about -0.1 dB at 8.5 kHz and -0.6 dB at 20 kHz) and a high-pass filter for the output coupling. A few analog details of the original circuit board are not known exactly; those parts follow the data sheets of the converter chips. Off feeds the vocoder a clean digital signal and passes its output as it is.
The plugin's own latency is small, and it reports it to the host, so recordings line up on playback:
| Sample rate | HARDWARE Micro | HARDWARE Off |
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| 44.1 kHz | 3.2 ms (143 samples) | 2.6 ms (116 samples) |
| 48 kHz | 3.1 ms (147 samples) | 2.3 ms (108 samples) |
| 88.2 kHz | 1.2 ms (108 samples) | 1.2 ms (108 samples) |
| 96 kHz | 0.8 ms (78 samples) | 0 |
Other sample rates are not supported: DIAG then says SAMPLE RATE NOT SUPPORTED. A project at 88.2 or 96 kHz comes a little closer to the hardware, because on the Micro some sibilance above 22 kHz folded down into the top band. The difference is small.
Tips for a good vocoder sound
Pronounce the consonants. They live high in the spectrum, where the band followers are fastest, so clear consonants come through sharp and mumbled words turn into vowels.
A compressor on the voice track keeps quiet syllables, word endings and breaths from dropping out; take the sidechain after it (Post FX in Live). Without one, the vocoder follows your dynamics more closely, which can sound more natural. 2vocringmod, HarmonySisters, unvoiced, UnvoicedVocoder02 and VocalEncoder03 already have a compressor inside, and VC_WanVocoder2 compresses its output.
A bright carrier with many harmonics gives the clearest words. Narrow pulse waves and saws work better than soft waveforms, and a little noise helps the "s" and "t". Try a narrow Pulse Width, the noise controls, or unvoiced and UnvoicedVocoder02, which switch to noise for sibilants. For pads behind a voice, start with Noise Choir or a chorus preset; for a single robot line, RobotVoc or any preset at VOICES 1.
Record a phrase, loop it and turn the knobs while it plays, so you hear every knob without having to sing at the same time. A whole mix of voice, bass and drums vocodes well as the modulator, because bass and drums sit outside the voice's range; guitars and synths in the same range make it muddy.
Every sound in the microphone opens the bands. On stage, use headphones, keep the microphone close, and pick a preset that closes with the keys or has a gate: Deep Vocoder, keyedvocoder, Noise Choir, VC_WanVocoder2, Vocoder 2, ManhattanTrans, or the expander in the factory presets.
How to install Syd Vocoder
Close your DAW before you install or update. Some hosts, Ableton Live among them, only pick up a new version after a restart. In the DAW, Syd Vocoder shows up as an instrument from the maker Lloyd Stellar.
Windows
- Close your DAW and unzip the download.
- Copy the folder Syd Vocoder.vst3 to C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\. This needs administrator rights. Copy the whole folder, not only the file inside it.
- Start the DAW and rescan if it does not find Syd Vocoder by itself. In Ableton Live: Settings, Plug-Ins, Rescan. In FL Studio: Options, Manage plugins, Find installed plugins.
To uninstall, delete C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\Syd Vocoder.vst3.
macOS
The Mac download holds an installer, Install Syd Vocoder.pkg. The plugin runs natively on Apple silicon and Intel Macs with macOS 11 or newer. Syd Vocoder is a free project without an Apple developer account, so the installer is not registered with Apple, and the first time macOS stops it with a message that it was "Not Opened" or "cannot be opened". That is expected. Click Done, then:
- On macOS 15 (Sequoia) or newer: open the Apple menu, System Settings, Privacy & Security, and scroll down to Security. Next to the line that says "Install Syd Vocoder.pkg" was blocked, click Open Anyway, enter your Mac password or use Touch ID, and click Open Anyway once more.
- On macOS 14 (Sonoma) or older: hold Control and click the installer (or right-click it), choose Open, and click Open in the message.
- In the installer, click Continue and Install, and enter the password you use to log in to your Mac. Click Close when it is done.
- Start your DAW. Ableton Live finds the plugin by itself when Use VST3 Plug-In System Folders is on (Settings, Plug-Ins).
The installer puts the plugin in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/, for all users of the Mac. To update, close the DAW and run the installer of the new version. To uninstall, choose Go, Go to Folder in the Finder, type /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3 and drag Syd Vocoder.vst3 to the Bin. Syd Vocoder has no Audio Unit, so it does not run in Logic Pro.
Linux
The Linux build needs 64-bit Linux on an Intel or AMD processor with glibc 2.35 or newer: Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36 or later. It also needs the GCC C++ runtime, ALSA, FreeType and Fontconfig, which every Linux desktop has, and its window needs X11 or XWayland. It has not been tested in a Linux host yet.
- Close your DAW and unpack the download.
- Copy the folder Syd Vocoder.vst3 to ~/.vst3/ for your own account, or to /usr/lib/vst3/ for all users (needs root; some distributions use /usr/local/lib/vst3/).
- Start the DAW and rescan if it does not find Syd Vocoder by itself.
mkdir -p ~/.vst3 && cp -r "Syd Vocoder.vst3" ~/.vst3/
To uninstall, delete the folder Syd Vocoder.vst3 again.
CPU
Most presets run a vocoder per voice, so the load grows with VOICES. On a laptop with an Intel Core i7-1195G7 at 44.1 kHz, one voice takes about 4 to 5 % of one CPU core, and BasicVocoder at 16 voices about 36 %. Noise Choir and VC_WanVocoder2 cost far less per voice. If the audio drops out, lower VOICES (4 is enough for most chords) or raise the buffer size.
Credits, licence and Clavia
The presets are based on Nord Modular vocoder patches shared by their authors: Roland Kuit and Kees van der Maarel, jsd, Tommi Lindell, Rob Hordijk, Skeleton, James J. Clark, Wan Kemper, krc, Clavia (the seven Micro Modular factory patches) and the unknown authors of WP Vocoder, cylon vocoder and keyedvocoder. Deep Vocoder and Noise Choir are mine.
Syd Vocoder is free software under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3, and comes with no warranty. It is built with JUCE, and the panel uses the fonts Noto Sans and Noto Sans Mono under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Syd Vocoder is inspired by the vocoder of the Clavia Nord Modular. It is an independent project, not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Clavia DMI AB, and it contains no Clavia program code. Nord, Nord Modular and Nord Micro Modular are trademarks of Clavia DMI AB.
Questions, and a few fixes
Is Syd Vocoder free?
Yes. The plug-in for Windows, Mac and Linux and the manual are free downloads, with no trial, no paid version and no account. Syd Vocoder is free software under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.
Which computers does it run on?
64-bit Windows, macOS 11 or newer on Apple silicon and Intel Macs, and 64-bit Linux on Intel or AMD with glibc 2.35 or newer (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36 or later). It is a VST3 on all three. It has been tested in Ableton Live 12.4 on Windows and macOS; on Linux it has not been tested in a host yet.
Do I need a separate synth?
No. The synth that gives the vocoder its pitch (the carrier) is built in. You play it from a MIDI keyboard and send your voice to the plug-in's sidechain input.
Is this the Nord Modular vocoder?
It is a recreation, made to sound as close to the vocoder of the Nord Modular and Nord Micro Modular as possible: 16 bands, the same envelope followers and the same 24-bit fixed-point arithmetic. It contains no Clavia program code and is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Clavia DMI AB.
Does it work in Logic Pro?
No. Logic Pro only loads Audio Units, and Syd Vocoder is a VST3. On a Mac it runs in VST3 hosts such as Ableton Live.
Which DAWs does it work in?
It is tested in Ableton Live 12.4 on Windows and macOS. The manual also describes the routing for Reaper, Bitwig Studio, Cubase and FL Studio, which should work but have not been tested. The host has to get your voice onto the plug-in's sidechain or main input, and MIDI from your keyboard onto its track.
I hear nothing. What now?
You only hear the vocoder when the synth plays and your voice comes in at the same time. Click DIAG on the panel: the MIDI event count should rise when you play, Voice read from should name an input, and that input should show a level while you sing. If not, check the sidechain routing and that the voice track is on Monitor In.
Why does it play when I am not holding a key?
Twelve presets are drones, as the original patches were: the synth keeps playing at the last note and the vocoder lets it through whenever you sing. With more than one voice, every voice drones, so you may hear more pitches than you played. Set VOICES to the number of notes you play, or to 1.
macOS says the installer cannot be opened. What now?
The installer is not registered with Apple, so macOS stops it the first time. Click Done. On macOS 15 or newer, open System Settings, Privacy and Security, and click Open Anyway next to the message about Install Syd Vocoder.pkg. On macOS 14 or older, Control-click the installer, choose Open and click Open.
How much latency does it add?
About 3 ms at 44.1 and 48 kHz in the default HARDWARE Micro mode, and 2.3 to 2.6 ms with HARDWARE Off. At 96 kHz it is 0.8 ms, or nothing with HARDWARE Off. The plug-in reports this to the host, so recordings line up.
The music behind it, and more plugins
Vocoder vocals over machine-like beats are what my own electro is made of, and most of those voices came out of the Micro Modular. You can hear them on Bandcamp, and the story behind the studio is on the About Me page. For a robot that raps typed lyrics on the beat, try Lloyd's Robot Vocal. The other downloads are on the free plugins page, and the online TR-808 can make the beat underneath.