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Type in lyrics, and this keyboard sings them, as Casio returns to its Casiotone roots
It’s like the love-child of those fun 80s portable keyboards and Vocaloid. New Casiotone keyboards will sing lyrics for you.
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Ableton Live freebies: new J74 FreeCode Max for Live pack with chorus, vocoder, chords
Hotrod your Ableton Live sessions with still more Max for Live freebies. From J74 aka Fabrizio Poce comes a chord generator, phase vocoder, and stereo chorus for free, plus a lot more updates if you spend a few bucks on the packs.
Laurie Anderson, in video, on the stories behind her custom-built instruments
A violin can be totally transformed – and the performance with it – from ice skates to neon instruments to ventriloquists’ dummies. Laurie Anderson in this film talks about her many ingenious instrumental inventions.
Peter Kirn - September 27, 2021
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Bitwig Studio just added a free vocoder, because Xmas
Peter Kirn - December 24, 2019
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Watch a beautiful video about vocoder history from The New Yorker
Peter Kirn - July 12, 2019
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Moog teases spectral shift invention for Moogfest
Peter Kirn - March 22, 2019
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Roland’s little VT-4 vocal wonder box just got new reverbs
Peter Kirn - November 30, 2018
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