The VP-03 delivers a high-quality and authentic emulation of the VP-330's vibe; it's intuitive and well-built too. Best synthesizers 2025: Top analogue, digital, mono and polysynths Best Roland ...
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 ...
It is hard to remember that scant decades ago, electronic magazines — the pre-Internet equivalent of blogs — featured lots of audio circuits based on analog processing. Music synthesizers were popular ...
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 ...
Expressive E adds MPE to the physically-modelled world of solo strings. We pick up a bow and apply some virtual rosin ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The STVC, as it appears to be known, has been listed by retailer B&H, and also features a vocoder ...
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 ...
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, Vibe) ...
The vocoder—part military technology, part musical instrument—has had quite a history. In our new Object of Interest video, we explore the vocoder in settings ranging from the Second World War to ...