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

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 ...

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 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—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 ...

Mara Mills, Media and Prosthesis: The Vocoder, the Artificial Larynx, and the History of Signal Processing, Qui Parle, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2012), pp. 107-149 ...

phase vocoder 1 Articles Real Time Video Anonymizer May 19, 2015 by Brian Benchoff 39 Comments ...

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.