Vocoders have been popping up in music production since the early 1970s, and every now and then they make a comeback (hands up, Daft Punk fans). But for every over-indulgent, funktastic outing (Herbie Hancock’s late 70s o­fferings are a particular guilty pleasure of the crew), there are hundreds of users out there sneaking snatches of vocoded vocals (and more) into their tracks. Like Auto-Tune, the e­ffect has become a mainstay of music production. Antennas and wave propagation by gsnraju free. But before we go hunting, what are we actually talking about here? In essence, a vocoder is a device that uses multiband ­filtering to take the ‘response’ of one sound (the modulator) and give it the character of another (the carrier). The modulator is typically a voice or percussive instrument and, although the carrier signal can be anything you like, a synthesiser gives the classic vocoded ‘talking synth’ or robot voice sound.

Plug-ins tend to have built-in sound generation (ie, a basic synth) but often can process external carriers too. All of the vocoders in our round-up are dual-platform, except Vocodex (PC-only) and OrangeVocoder (Mac-only). Let’s find out a little bit more about them. NEXT: Prev Page 1 of 8 Next Prev Page 1 of 8 Next.

Hot Robot Vocoder - Developer: Design-S Official. VOCALIZER PRO 1.3 Vocalizer is described as a completely new concept in modern music production that.