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Making Vocoder-Sounds

Robot-voices are very nice to make cool vocals for music like electro and oldschool hiphop. The history of vocoders is very long, you can find a lot of information by looking on websites like wikipedia etc. Some crews like Kraftwerk, Knightz of bass, Grandmaster Flash, Freestyle, Bass Partrol, The Alliance, Man Parrish - Boogie Down (Bronx) and a lot of other artists used a vocoder, often the Roland SVC-350.

There are many ways to make robot-voices, some of them are hardware-based, some are software based. I like to write here some informations i found in the internet.

Hardware-Vocoder:

Roland SVC-350

The Roland Vocoder is the first truly sophisticated Vocoder to be priced within range of most musicians. The primary function of the Roland Vocoder is to analyze the spoken or sung human voice and use this information (or program) to trigger another musical signal (or carrier) giving the instrument the ability to ’speak.’ This vocal synthesis is accomplished by processing the voice through a series of eleven Voice Character analysis filters. All of the filters within the Voice Character control are active and control an envelope follower which reacts according to the volume of that individual frequency. This information is then used to shape those frequencies of the carrier (musical instrument) signal. (found at http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/davies/vocbaro2.htm )

Boss Vt1-Vocoder

A little cheaper version of a vocoder (voice transformator)

A sound-sample that we made with a Boss Vt1 Voice-transformator:

www.britcore.net/sounds/Class-Action-Back-To-The-Roots-demo.mp3

KORG KAOSS PAD KP3 - Vocoder

Software-Vocoder Tutorial:

Warbeats Tutorial - Vocoder in FL Studio

I hope this will be a start into a nice discussion.

Thx!

DjHighfly

A nice overview (german)

Tags: vocoder, voice tranformator, tutorial, electro-voice, robot-voice

Hi oldschool and music-friends!

a very interesting way to do funny vocals is to use a talkbox

here is a little video-preview of this technique:

please feel free to write a blog about this theme!

peace

djhighly

Tags: talkbox, electro, vocoder,

Hallo Breaker, Dj´s, Mc´s und Writer!

ich möchte dem Thema Electro und Oldschool ganz besondere Aufmerksamkeit schenken und dafür eine eigene Kategorie anbieten.

Hier soll es um die Musikrichtung im Allgemeinen gehen, sowie einzelne Themen behandeln wie z.b. Talkbox, Vocoder, Beats und Software mit denen man diese Musikrichtung produzieren kann.

Ich eröffene das Thema auch gleich mit einem kleinen Demosong von Cynic-K ein Allround-Talent, Mc und Beat-Producer

hier ein Auschnitt von einem Electrobeat mit ein paar Scratches:

www.britcore.net/sounds/djhighfly-scratch-test2.mp3

Gruss

DjHighfly

Tags: oldschool, breakdance, vocoder, electrofunk, bboys, software, reason

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Hallo HipHop-Fans!

Update vom 23.Januar 2007

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Seit einigen Tagen sind auf der Webseite von www.undergroundunited.de die aktuellsten Informationen zur nächsten Britcore-Jam veröffentlicht worden. Die Infos sieht wie folgt aus:

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DjHighfly

Tags: hiphop, rap, jam, konzert, britcore