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.

Moog teases spectral shift invention for Moogfest

Moogfest is inbound, and that means some new, limited quantity creation of the engineers at Moog. This year it’s a fascinating looking spectral shift module.

Peter Kirn - March 22, 2019

Jlin, Holly Herndon, and ‘Spawn’ find beauty in AI’s flaws

Musicians don’t just endure technology when it breaks. They embrace the broken. So it’s fitting that Holly Herndon’s team have produced a demonic spawn of machine learning algorithms – and that the results are wonderful.

Peter Kirn - December 10, 2018

Roland’s little VT-4 vocal wonder box just got new reverbs

Peter Kirn - November 30, 2018

Universal Audio just made their interfaces into a live vocoder, more

Peter Kirn - November 14, 2018

Roland VT-4 adds MIDI, control for performer-friendly vocal FX

Peter Kirn - October 16, 2018

Roland’s latest keytar is more 80s than ever: AX-Edge

Peter Kirn - September 14, 2018

Let’s turn that synth into a singing robot, DerVoco brings vintage vocoder emulation to iOS

Ashley Elsdon - June 3, 2018

iZotope adds modeling features to Vocal Synth, makes a creative bundle

Peter Kirn - May 10, 2018

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