The 50 Greatest Vocoder Songs Not all robotic vocals are created equal! Our expert sets the record straight on which vocoder records are best.

The device famous for making human voices sound robotic did not originate in the recording studio. As music journalist Dave Tompkins writes in How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War ...

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The vocoder caught the ear of Kraftwerk, Afrika Bambaataa, Roger Troutman, Michael Jonzun, and more, making this futuristic sound the embodiment of funk.

The vocoder—code name Special Customer, the Green Hornet, Project X-61753, X-Ray, and SIGSALY—started distorting human speech in earnest during World War II, in response to the excellence of ...

A vocoder consists of several filter bands, tuned across the audio spectrum, that respond to a set of envelope followers corresponding to their specific frequency ranges.

Before T-Pain was using Auto-Tune to buy girls drinks, Franklin D. Roosevelt was using the vocoder to win World War II. In “How to Wreck a Nice Beach,” music critic Dave Tompkins (The Wire ...

The vocoder—part military technology, part musical instrument—has had quite a history. In our new Object of Interest video, we explore the vocoder in settings ranging from the Second World War ...

The vocoder was invented by Bell Labs in 1928 to prevent eavesdropping via telephone by scrambling vocal sounds. And its influence is responsible for all the AutoTune vocals dominating popular music ...

The True Story Of A Vocoder Love Ballad That's my best stab at the lyrics. (I presume there's no urtext form of this anywhere, but someone tell Casey to holler at me if he sees mistakes.) ...

Well, the MiniFreak just got freakier, as Arturia drops another free update for existing owners, and an entirely new version of the synth to boot: MiniFreak Vocoder Edition.

The AMBE-3003 Vocoder Chip offers three separate encoder/decoder operations to enable up to three full-duplex channels. With 62 built-in voice/FEC rates, designers can easily configure the chip to ...