That voice heard in Kraftwerk's "Autobahn" and the sound of Peter Frampton's guitar speaking like a human. Both are lumped together as "robot voices," but when you listen to them side-by-side, they ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Half art book, half music nerd bathroom reading, Dave Tompkins' long-in-the-works history of the vocoder, "How to Wreck a Nice Beach," chronicles the sound synthesizing system's ...

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 ...

Zynaptiq has announced the immediate availability of ORANGE VOCODER IV, which they describe as the zynaptified edition of the revered Prosoniq vocoder plug-in. Zynaptiq CEO, Denis Gökdag, told us, "We ...

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 ...

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 ...

The vocoder was never intended to change the music scene. In fact, it wasn’t meant for music at all. Its origins trace back a century, when engineer Homer Dudley at Bell Labs sought a more efficient ...

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 ...

Cher kept a low profile for a few years in the 1990s, navigating career shifts and personal challenges, before she erupted in the fall of 1998 with the futuristic Eurodance track “Believe,” the title ...

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.

A scientific tool for those lacking a voice, a means of encrypting voices during World War II, and a way to drop the funk, the vocoder has had many exhale its praises, from General Dwight D.