I expect one of the first unofficial Live 8 tutorials may use this clip. And of course, the great moment has been Ableton releasing a Vocoder in its upcoming Live 8, not so much because of Live or that Vocoder, but because company co-founder Robert Henke was immortalized in a remix (video above) talking about how you wouldn’t need it. Software and hardware vocoders are appearing everywhere. Hosts are getting better at accomplishing the routings necessary to produce vocoding effects.
(Hint: you don’t have to use your voice as a source.)
And, those lofty goals aside, it can still sound terrific when used creatively. It helped inspire the conceptual model for all digital communication.
It was one of the first electronic instruments. Sure, the vocoder may now be something of an electronic music cliché now, but it got its beginnings as a mechanism of encoding speech. Doepfer Vocoder module, as photographed by our friend stretta (Matthew Davidson).
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