There are few sounds that encapsulate electronic music like the sound of the vocoder. That sound of the robots singing: that’s a vocoder! The only problem is, they can be a tad tricky to use, but ...

Zynaptiq has just announced Pitchmap::Colors and Orange Vocoder. The first has our vote already, as it has Sick, Insane and WTF modes and chipmunk sounds. 'WTF?' you may very well ask. Aside from the ...

If you've listened to pop music in the past 40 years, you've probably heard more than a few songs with a robotic sound. That's thanks to the vocoder, a device invented by Bell Labs, the research ...

Arturia's MiniFreak is one of our favourite synths released in the past few years, a versatile and affordable hybrid analogue/digital poly that gained even more creative firepower following a ...