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 ...

Stop Smiling Books/ Melville House; 335 pp. The room contains two turntables and a microphone. Hulking consoles line the walls, covered in dials and gauges and blinking lights, like the bridge of ...

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 ...

LONDON Digital Voice Systems Inc. (DVSI) has introduced a new multi-channel vocoder chip. The AMBE-3003 vocoder chip offers three separate encoder/decoder operations to provide the capability of up to ...

DAVE TOMPKINS’ new book is titled How to Wreck a Nice Beach, but it has nothing to do with the BP oil spill, or any coast at all. Instead, the phrase he chose for his book title is how the words “how ...

Many synths now come with vocoders built in - and, of course, there are countless plugins that’ll do the job - but if you want the ultimate in vocoder luxury, and a price tag to match, Moog has the ...

Soundart has released Infiltrator 1.0, a free add-on for the company’s Chameleon hardware, a rack-mount 24-bit programmable DSP engine. Infiltrator is principally a vocoder that can recreate classic ...

AT the World's Fairs in New York and San Francisco great interest was shown in the speech synthesizer shown in the Bell System exhibits. In the December number of the Bell Laboratories Record, H.

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 ...

There´s plenty to like about this unconventional and unexpected addition to the Eiosis product range. That said, it´s neither essential nor for the faint-hearted. Very high CPU usage. Doesn’t accept ...