The Sennheiser VSM-201 vocoder was also used by DARPA, the Jet Propulsions Lab in Pasadena (Big up Jack Parsons), and a deleted alien abduction scene from Cheech & Chong's Next Movie.

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

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 ...

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 ...

From there, the vocoder began its creep into pop music, often via Kraftwerk 's post-human take on R&B. The vocoder caught the ear of Kraftwerk, Afrika Bambaataa, Roger Troutman, Michael Jonzun ...

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.

The True Story Of A Vocoder Love Ballad That's my best stab at the lyrics. (I presume there's no urtext form of this anywhere, but someone tell Casey to holler at me if he sees mistakes.) ...

Now the vocoder has reached an even higher level in the public consciousness with the Nov. 24 release of Kanye West’s fourth album, 808s And Heartbreak. There’s no rapping on the LP.

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 ...

Here’s how it works. Softube has introduced Vocoder, a new plugin that delivers exactly what its name implies. Offering the look and feel of a vintage vocoder, this features a six-voice carrier synth ...

I once dreamt that a fireplace chanted the "Nothing" vocoder to me in a cabin with antler chandeliers in Brevard, NC (where, when awake at age 8, I played my first game of Telephone.) ...

Floating Points has released a new single, called ‘Vocoder’. Out today, the eight-minute track sees the producer lean back towards the dancefloor following the release last year of Promises, a ...