When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NAMM 2016: BOSS has announced a new, compact vocoder which features four primary modes - Vintage, ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Boss has announced the latest addition to its 500 series pedals, the VE-500 Vocal Performer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bowers & Wilkins has released the newest generation of its heralded wireless headphones series, the Px7 S3. Building on the award-winning predecessor, Px7 S2e, the new cans offer upgrades across the ...

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.

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) ...