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 to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Offering the look and feel of a vintage vocoder, this features a six-voice carrier synth with ...

Vocoders can sound very stylised, but Orange IV covers all the bases that you’ll ever likely need, in a neat and stylish plugin. Significant latency makes real-time playing a challenge. Some glitches ...

If you've listened to pop music in the past 40 years, you've probably heard more than a few songs with a robotic sound. That's thanks to the vocoder, a device invented by Bell Labs, the research ...

On Version History: how to play your voice like an instrument, with a little help from Chromeo. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. is ...

声をロボット風に変えて音を奏でるソフト鍵盤、いわゆるボコーダーソフト。ボコーダー（Vocoder）とは人工発声装置の一種で、音楽の世界ではマイク入力した人の声をリアルタイムにシンセサイザーの音と合成して変調させ、まるでロボットが歌っているか ...

The vocoder was invented to improve telecommunications in the 1930s and re-purposed by the military to mask speech among officials during World War II. By the 1980s, artists like Afrika Bambaataa and ...

It is hard to remember that scant decades ago, electronic magazines — the pre-Internet equivalent of blogs — featured lots of audio circuits based on analog processing. Music synthesizers were popular ...

French electronics company Arturia, which is mostly known for its electronic music equipment, has announced that its MicroFreak has been updated with a vocoder function and a new white makeover. A ...

A scientific tool for those lacking a voice, a means for encrypting voices during WWII and a way to drop the funk, the vocoder has had many exhale its praises. Here are five essential vocoder tracks.

When Arturia announced the MicroFreak in January of 2019 I said “there's nothing stopping Arturia from adding more oscillators down the road through firmware updates.” And the company has not ...