Some vocoders, such as Ableton Live’s, allow you to select as few as four bands, which is cool for subtle processing of chords and leads. For Daft Punk vocoder and talkbox effects, increase the number ...

If you want to experiment live, select a microphone input, then you can speak, sing, and play at the same time, to experiment with your vocoder. (Image credit: Apple) Try running your track, and ...

Now the vocoder has reached an even higher level in the public consciousness with the Nov. 24 release of Kanye West’s fourth album, 808s And Heartbreak. There’s no rapping on the LP.

The vocoder is where the first instrument—the human voice—might meet the last, ... warning humans "You need us to live/ But we don’t need you." Herbie Hancock: "Tell Everybody", 1979.

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 ...

Last year Floating Points, aka electronic producer Sam Shepherd, teamed with free jazz icon Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra on Promises, a staggering, emotionally charged work ...

Deviating from Thursday protocol to bring you a new, lifetime-in-the-making vocoder mix by Monk One (mix) and Dave Tompkins (ideas). "Bonus Beach" ...

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.” ...

A vocoder is something totally different than auto-tune, and it's not a Roger Troutman talk box either, which is another mistake people seem to make.

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—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 ...

DAVE TOMPKINS’ new book is titled How to Wreck a Nice Beach, but it has nothing to do with the BP oil spill, or any coast at all. Instead, the phrase he chose for his book title is how the words “how ...