Watch a beautiful video about vocoder history from The New Yorker

It’s time for a throwback – this video was produced in 2014. But don’t miss out on a serious vocoder love fest full of history and celebrity interviews. And just wait, because the vocoder may be about to make an AI-fueled comeback.

The story of the Eventide gear that transformed music, coined “plug-ins”

From the extraordinary first digital breakthroughs of the 70s, when lightbulbs stood in for LEDs, to what may have been the first use of the word “plug-in,”* we the inventors of Eventide’s classics – who now have a Grammy nod of their own.

Peter Kirn - April 26, 2018

MusicMakers Hacklab Berlin to take on artificial minds as theme

AI is the buzzword on everyone’s lips these days. But how might musicians respond to themes of machine intelligence? That’s our topic in Berlin, 2018.

Peter Kirn - December 1, 2017

We talked to Dave Smith about those Pioneer sampler filters

Peter Kirn - April 5, 2016

Here’s How RX4 Can Save Your Bacon By Fixing Sound – Even on Hit TV

Peter Kirn - May 21, 2015

Can a Pioneer Turntable Do What a Technics Turntable Couldn’t?

- July 17, 2014

Just Do It: Moog Engineer Explains Why They Remade Keith Emerson’s Modular [Videos, Audio]

- May 9, 2014

Music Developer on Windows 8: A Leap Forward for Desktops; A Leap Backward for Metro, WinRT?

Peter Kirn - June 27, 2012

Björk’s Engineer-Music Director Damian Taylor Shares Thoughts on Music, Free Max/MSP Patch

Peter Kirn - October 7, 2011

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