The vocoder, as Tompkins puts it, represented “the black voice removed from itself, dispossessed by Reaganomics, recession, and urban renewal, and escaping to outer space where there was more ...

A few weeks ago, the music writer Dave Tompkins took a podium in one of NYU’s many windowless annexes to promote his upcoming book, How To Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War II To ...

The voice coding rate and the FEC rate for each channel can be specified independently for integration into a variety of design configurations. The AMBE-3003 implements DVSI's most advanced AMBE+2 ...

In defence of the vocoder, the technology was also embraced by funk pioneers, with Herbie Hancock using one to disguise his own singing voice. But thanks to the vocoder’s closeness to the sound of a ...

A vocoder/harmony generator in a stompboxNow, for 2009, it's turned its expertise to making a vocoder and harmony generator in stompbox format. At its heart, the Voice Box has a 256-band vocoder (the ...

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.

Casio is capturing a bit of Daft Punk magic with the new Casiotone CT-S1000V, which comes with the ability to “sing” using a built-in, customizable, voice synthesizer. The CT-S1000V, when used ...

Sweet, art pop from Matt Pond PA; The vocoder voice of Imogen Heap; Canada's power pop New Pornographers; Concert for Bangladesh: George Harrison; A 1971 psychedelic reissue from The Move and more.

Arturia's MicroFreak Now Comes With a Vocoder So You Can Synth Your Vocals: It's also finished in white with orange, gold, and swan-like details.

The AMBE-3003 Vocoder Chip offers three separate encoder/decoder operations to enable up to three full-duplex channels. With 62 built-in voice/FEC rates, designers can easily configure the chip to ...