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 ...

* Photo: Joseph Maida * From Lil Wayne's cyborg-slick singing on "Lollipop" to the Twiki-tweaked vocals of T-Pain, use of the voice-enhancing software Auto-Tune has reached a fever pitch. But it turns ...

Prologue: 1998, "The Robot-like Voice"1998. A dance-pop song plays on the radio in the UK.It is sung by the veteran American ...

It took me a long time to get to grips with T-Pain. I had nothing against his cuddly cheeks or tie-dyed dreads. I didn't even mind his silly lyrics about strippers and being "sprung". No, it was the ...

Vocoders can sound very stylised, but Orange IV covers all the bases that you’ll ever likely need, in a neat and stylish plugin. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and producers ...

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"A combination of something slightly more robotic or machine-led with the natural voice can be quite moving or quite unusual [...] That's something I've always wanted to explore." For the third week ...

Antares Audio Technologies have released a new Vocoder which comes with Auto Tune on board, entitled the Auto-Tune Vocodist. It's available to their Auto-Tune Unlimited subscribers only, but it also ...

DAVE TOMPKINS’ new book is titled How to Wreck a Nice Beach, but it has nothing to do with the BP oil spill, or any coast at all. Instead, the phrase he chose for his book title is how the words “how ...

Leaving aside the fact that vocoders and Auto-Tune are two totally different technologies — c’mon, Wyclef! — the case made in “Mr. Auto-Tune” has one critical flaw: “Mr. Auto-Tune,” itself, is way ...

Zynaptiq Orange Vocoder IV: What is it? 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, ...