用vocoder來做音樂在西方樂壇行之有年，早在70年代，來自德國的電子音樂先驅 Kraftwerk，以及80年代的搖滾樂團，和較近期的另一個有名例子──Daft ...

A number of other parameters let you finesse the character of the vocoder’s sound. Not every vocoder includes all of them, and some versions feature additional options, but these are the most common ...

The vocoder was invented to improve telecommunications in the 1930s and re-purposed by the military to mask speech among officials during World War II. By the 1980s, artists like Afrika Bambaataa ...

The vocoder—the musical instrument that gave Kraftwerk its robotic sound—began as an early telecommunications device and a top-secret military encoding machine.

The phase vocoder works by performing an FFT analysis of the sound and "reconstructing" the sound as a set of sine waves. These sine waves can then be manipulated to stretch or shift the sound in ...

The vocoder is less prevalent in today's popular music, but its legacy lives on. Its successor is Auto-Tune, the pitch-correcting software prominent in popular music today.

And the swan graphic inlay is lovely. Unfortunately, and unsurprisingly, the MicroFreak Vocoder edition does cost slightly more: $349 vs. $299 for the original.