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Casio's new synth may contain vocoding features, as teased in a new trailer. The 19-second video shows the synthesiser, which looks to be red and black in colour and is accompanied by a robotic voice ...

When Arturia announced the MicroFreak in January of 2019 I said “there's nothing stopping Arturia from adding more oscillators down the road through firmware updates.” And the company has not ...

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, they can be a tad tricky to use, but ...

Novation has announced MiniNova, an amazingly powerful but compact synthesizer that packs never-seen-before features, including push-button Animate controls and Novation's brand new voice effect: ...

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Arturia has given the "spontaneous algorithmic synthesizer" MiniFreak another firmware update. The main new feature in version 4.0.0 is that the synthesizer becomes a vocoder. To install the update, ...