Pink Floyd, Dogs, and Radias

[Vlad_77]

Hi Radias wizards. I need some advice. I'm in a Pink Floyd tribute band and one of the songs we do is Dogs from Animals. In the long middle bit there are, appropriately, dogs barking and howling. I have the raw samples of barking howling mutts but what I want to do is reproduce the effect found on the song where the dogs' barking and howling becomes more "vocoderish."

I've been running ideas through my addled brain and a few solutions come to mind. I could mangle the the sample in V-Synth or Kronos, but, I think Radias holds the answer, so here is what I am thinking, and suggestions for alternatives are welcome. The only caveat is that I am not a softsynth musician, so, this would need to be done with the gear I have in my sig.

The partner in crime with Radias is Jupiter 80. As you probably know, the Jupiter 80 has a recording function whereby you can play over music, sounds, whatever from a USB stick. It also has an input so that you can store songs on the stick and play them back. It's sort of a wannabe sequencer, quasi-sampler deal.

So, I thought to run the dog sample from my PC into the input of Radias and run the Radias output into the Jupiter input. As the sound is going through Radias, I would slowly up the effect on the sample to approximate the more machine like sound of the dogs as the sound progesses. The Jupiter would record this directly to USB, and I would have (I hope) a pretty good approximation of the sound created by Pink Floyd.

I had thought at first to just sample that whole section with Kronos, V-Synth, or Fantom X, but, the problem is that there are drums in the recording which the drummer feels would mess him up and also he feels silly sitting there while a sample plays with drums - I can't blame him for that.

So, would such a solution work, or are there more efficient ways to accomplish this. Again, I think Radias provides the key, I just need that lock to open.

Thanks all in advance and as posts come in!

Oh final note: I am working with a WAV file and want to be able to have the finished sound as a WAV file because WAV files are not compressed like MP3.

Best,
Vlad