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 ...

Minimal Audio is the Minnesota-based software developer behind popular plugins like Current and Rift, tools that balance user-friendly playability with creative firepower and sonic experimentation.

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 ...

The vocoder—the musical instrument that gave Kraftwerk its robotic sound—began as an early telecommunications device and a top-secret military encoding machine. sort of alienated from your body. It ...

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.

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 ...

Have you invited robots to your Memorial Day barbecue and would you like to impress them with a futuristic soundtrack? Dave Tompkins, author of How to Wreck a Nice Beach (see Sam Anderson’s review ...

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 ...