Next up in our guide to making music with the internet's most capable freeware, we decode the mysteries of the vocoder When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

There's a decidedly old-school feel to the round-up this week. We've got a couple of acid-style synths for you, another classic monophonic instrument, a preamp and a vintage-style vocoder. If you've ...

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 ...

Stop Smiling Books/ Melville House; 335 pp. The room contains two turntables and a microphone. Hulking consoles line the walls, covered in dials and gauges and blinking lights, like the bridge of ...

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 German ...

World War II increased the rate of human innovation to a pace unseen in any other period of history. New technology from the era includes everything from synthetic rubber to the atomic bomb to ...

This week on Culturetopia: Keith Richards and Mick Jagger reflect on their raw rock and roll classic 'Exile on Main Street;' actors with disabilities on the TV series 'Glee;' the history of the ...

Bowers & Wilkins has released the newest generation of its heralded wireless headphones series, the Px7 S3. Building on the award-winning predecessor, Px7 S2e, the new cans offer upgrades across the ...