Getting set up with the TAL-Vocoder Now that we understand the core principles of how vocoders work, let’s take a look at one in practice to better understand their musical potential. For this, we’ll ...

Yeah, I use Orange on the PC with Nuendo.<BR><BR>$250 is a lot of money, but I wonder if you could really get a real vocoder for that. I'm thinking not.

The device famous for making human voices sound robotic did not originate in the recording studio. As music journalist Dave Tompkins writes in How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War ...

Using the vocoder in the original hardware VP-330 or the boutique VP-03 is straightforward, as both have XLR inputs and the latter comes with a gooseneck XLR microphone.

The device famous for making human voices sound robotic did not originate in the recording studio. As music journalist Dave Tompkins writes in How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder From World War ...

Before T-Pain was using Auto-Tune to buy girls drinks, Franklin D. Roosevelt was using the vocoder to win World War II. In “How to Wreck a Nice Beach,” music critic Dave Tompkins (The Wire ...

The vocoder was invented by Bell Labs in 1928 to prevent eavesdropping via telephone by scrambling vocal sounds. And its influence is responsible for all the AutoTune vocals dominating popular music ...

Dave Tompkins is an acclaimed music journalist. His new book, How To Wreck A Nice Beach, is a history of the vocoder from its military applications to its musical ones.