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 ...

Arturia is celebrating this major update by also releasing a new limited edition white MicroFreak packaged with a gooseneck microphone. I’ve got to say, the new look is pretty spectacular. The ...

Visco 2.0 turns Forever89's boundary-pushing drum machine into a polysynth – hands-on Codec, one of our favourite free lo-fi plugins, just got an update Vocoder is available now for the introductory ...

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 ...

This was one of our major criticisms of it, and thankfully, Vocoder 5000 - which is an all-new, freshly coded plugin and not a 'repackaging' of the ELS Vocoder - has no such limitation thanks to its ...

From there, the vocoder began its creep into pop music, often via Kraftwerk 's post-human take on R&B. The vocoder caught the ear of Kraftwerk, Afrika Bambaataa, Roger Troutman, Michael Jonzun ...

The chip implements the company’s most advanced AMBE+2 vocoder technology. The AMBE+2 technology outperforms G.729 and G.726 at half the data rate and less, according to the company.