NEW YORK (Billboard) - Half art book, half music nerd bathroom reading, Dave Tompkins' long-in-the-works history of the vocoder, "How to Wreck a Nice Beach," chronicles the sound synthesizing system's ...

A scientific tool for those lacking a voice, a means for encrypting voices during WWII and a way to drop the funk, the vocoder has had many exhale its praises. Here are five essential vocoder tracks.

VirSyn has released the first publicly available third-party audio plug-in with VST3 support, Matrix Vocoder. VST3 is a new audio standard developed by Steinberg that offers developers new tools for ...