Expressive E adds MPE to the physically-modelled world of solo strings. We pick up a bow and apply some virtual rosin ...

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 ...

7. Waldorf STVC Vocoder/ String Machine (Image credit: Future) There is nothing quite like sitting down at a keyboard vocoder to get you inspired. The Waldorf is a great contemporary example of what a ...

Next up in our guide to making music with the internet's most capable freeware, we decode the mysteries of the vocoder When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...