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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. tal vocoder plugin Something we've yet to cover in this series of tutorials is vocoding, and a good-quality (free) vocoding ...

Among the group’s top five vocoder tracks are a Belgian disco stomp from the 70s, Anderson’s O Superman, Kraftwerk’s Robots, and a slice of fine Italodisco This Belgian disco number is a fine example ...

"We are the Robots" said Kraftwerk on their 1978 single in a mysteriously emotionless, androgynous tone - an eerily perfect mix of man and machine. That's a good way to describe a vocoder, which mixes ...

Following its XILS 505 paraphonic string machine earlier this year, XILS-lab has announced availability of XILS 201 as another 'numeric namesake' plug-in. This time they say it is inspired by a ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Originally developed for telecommunications and military applications in the 1930s, the vocoder, ...

A Texas native, Bryan began his professional career as the opening act for legendary jazz guitarist Larry Carlton. A graduate of University of Southern California (BM, DMA), and University of Texas ...

A native of the Pacific Northwest, Jordan grew up traveling the country as the son of theater technical directors and speech instructors. His exposure to the performing arts early on helped foster his ...