Homer Dudley’s Invention: The weird way a 1930s science project transformed modern pop music

Homer Dudley, an American engineer and scientist, may have always wanted to make his mark on the technological world but didn ...
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Roland's Voice and Transformer 'VT-4' review that can be easily created from a voice of a beautiful girl to a robot voice

The outer box of VT - 4 looks like this. When opening the box, Roland's electronic musical instrument brand " AIRA" logo was decorated in the inner pig. Besides the VT - 4 main body, there were a ...
Today

T-Pain rules the world of Auto-Tune

His vocoder-assisted vocals, which helped him churn out 11 chart-topping hits, has inspired so many copycats that listening to the radio these days can seem like hearing one-long T-Pain song. When ...
MusicRadar

"If you’re into creating interesting vocoder sounds, try feeding a drum machine through the vocoder instead of a vocal": 14 tried and tested vocal effect tips

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you like the idea of playing the vocoder, you may well have to get used to the concept of ...
TechRepublic

A VHDL Implementation of Voice Morphing using Phase Vocoder Algorithm

The phase vocoder is a tool used to perform time-stretching and pitch-shifting on recorded sounds. Voice morphing is the process of producing intermediate or hybrid voices between the utterances of ...
MusicRadar

How Laurie Anderson made the experimental classic O Superman: "The lyrics are a one-sided conversation, like a prayer to God. I wanted it to be like a Greek chorus – not just ...

As the unlikely 1981 hit goes viral on TikTok, we tell the story of Laurie Anderson's strangely compelling masterpiece When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
NPR

Imogen Heap, New Pornographers, The Move

Sweet, art pop from Matt Pond PA; The vocoder voice of Imogen Heap; Canada's power pop New Pornographers; Concert for Bangladesh: George Harrison; A 1971 psychedelic reissue from The Move; The ambient ...