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 ...

How To Wreck A Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop by Dave Tompkins (Stop Smiling Books; $35) World War II increased the rate of human innovation to a pace unseen in any other ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A vocoder works its magic by sending separate ‘carrier’ and ‘modulator’ signals through parallel banks of band-pass filters, then modulating the levels of the carrier’s filters with the output levels ...

Looking for a easy-medium degree of dificulty way to create vocoded voices (Ala Stephen Hawking, Radiohead (Fitter Happier), John Digweed(We are Connected)). Looking for highly artificial sound ...

Arturia's MicoFreak gets a vocoder mode and limited-edition makeover The MicroFreak Vocoder edition is pretty, but current owners aren't being left out in the cold.