When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Softube has introduced Vocoder, a new plugin that delivers exactly what its name implies.

A scientific tool for those lacking a voice, a means for encrypting voices during WWII and a way to drop the funk, the vocoder has had many exhale its praises. Here are five essential vocoder tracks.

The vocoder—the musical instrument that gave Kraftwerk its robotic sound—began as an early telecommunications device and a top-secret military encoding machine. sort of alienated from your body. It ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Moogfest 2019 is nearly upon us and in what has become standard practice for Moog, the Asheville ...

While Cher, Britney, and Kid Rock have twiddled the Vocoder in their day, Kraftwerk was probably the first band to really remind us of the techno-hell we’re descending into by opened Autobahn with the ...

(17:46) Clear--Cybotron (from Jeff Mills, "The Wizard," WJLB, Detroit, 1986) "When you go to those places where those people were stars and where black music was rooted in those clubs, there's nothing ...

At one point in time, to many, Snoop Dogg was the man. He was the epitome of a laidback hustler, the kind of cool no MC or even celebrity could replicate. And then he started making records like Da ...

French electronics company Arturia, which is mostly known for its electronic music equipment, has announced that its MicroFreak has been updated with a vocoder function and a new white makeover. A ...

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) ...

Last year Floating Points, aka electronic producer Sam Shepherd, teamed with free jazz icon Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra on Promises, a staggering, emotionally charged work that ...

Last year Floating Points collaborated with Pharoah Sanders and London Symphony Orchestra on Promises, one of The FADER's favorite albums of 2021. Today Sam Shepherd returns with new solo material ...