Explore the fascinating evolution of the vocoder, talkbox, and Auto-Tune, tracing their journey from Bell Labs through World War II to their influence on Daft Punk in this episode of Version History.

Abstract: Vocoder-based speech synthesis has become a promising technique to accommodate the demands of high-quality speech analysis, manipulation, and synthesis. However, most existing works focus on ...

Sam Ash releases a new guide highlighting the year's top-performing synthesizers for electronic music production, including ...

These days, synthesised sound is easy to access – but early electronic music pioneers had to get hands on to produce it ...

Arturia has given the "spontaneous algorithmic synthesizer" MiniFreak another firmware update. The main new feature in version 4.0.0 is that the synthesizer becomes a vocoder. To install the update, ...

New more versatile sound engine. Vocoder, hardtune and harmonizer vocal effects. Solid build. Excellent color screen. The MicroKorg 2 is an improvement on the original in almost every way, that much ...

Vocoders can sound very stylised, but Orange IV covers all the bases that you’ll ever likely need, in a neat and stylish plugin. Significant latency makes real-time playing a challenge. Some glitches ...

Abstract: The channel vocoder is described. This device achieves bandwidth compression greater than that of the bandpass compressor but less than that of the formant vocoder. To date it has been much ...

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.