If you are a music producer looking for the "last word in vocoders," Image-Line Vocodex
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Image-Line previously offered Vocodex as a standalone VST plugin for use in other DAWs like Ableton Live or Logic Pro. However, the standalone VST version was discontinued around late 2020 because it was not updated to VST3 format.