Would anyone have predicted that a vocal effect best known for its use in a Cher song would dominate hip-hop one day? Doubtful. But a decade after the robotic twinges of Cher’s husky vocals in ...

Softube has introduced Vocoder, a new plugin that delivers exactly what its name implies. Offering the look and feel of a vintage vocoder, this features a six-voice carrier synth with four selectable ...

Put on your helmet and grab a bottle of Gatorade, because apparently we’re headed into the future -- at least if new Vocoder-heavy tracks by both Big Boi and Kendrick Lamar are any indication. In a ...

Sometimes a melody just captures your ear in a way that renders you powerless to resist. I've written before about "For You," the R&B-ish ballad recorded by both Stefon Harris and Robert Glasper last ...

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 ...

French electronics company Arturia, which is mostly known for its electronic music equipment, has announced that its MicroFreak has been updated with a vocoder function and a new white makeover. A ...

A scientific tool for those lacking a voice, a means of encrypting voices during World War II, and a way to drop the funk, the vocoder has had many exhale its praises, from General Dwight D.

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 German ...

[poprhythm]’s Touch Tone MIDI Phone is a fantastic conversion of an old touch tone phone into a MIDI instrument complete with intact microphone, but this project isn’t just about showing off the ...