Dense ésta breve y reveladora historia del vocoder, más un recorrido por algunos temas que hicieron famoso y distintivo ese sonido, desde Kraftwerk y Zapp a Timbaland y Boards of Canada. Buena ahí iZotope.

“The vocoder has a strange history. Today we associate it with robotic vocals in music, but it was originally designed as a speech coding tool by Bell Labs in the 1920s to reduce the bandwidth and improve the travel distance of voice messages.

The voice encryption possibilities offered by the vocoder were used to conceal messages sent by the US military to their soldiers and allies during World War II”.

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