Vocoder: Instrument of the month

By: Daniel De Luna
June 15th, 2006 | Category: Instruments of the month


One of our favourite sounds here at Suite303Server is not an instrument in a strict sense. Created in 1940, by the famous Homer Dudley, to break the speech patterns of telephonic communications into smaller components for them to be able to fit a more narrow bandwith, the resulting machine the Voice Coder (hence the name Vocoder) is a sound effect tool that makes the human voice sound synthetic. The synthesized sound that comes through the output of the vocoder preserves the tonal characteristics of the voice that was placed through the input signal, making its characteristic “robotic” sound.

Download your own free vocoder software, or listen to samples: normal and vocoded.

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