Vocoders: the "singing robot" sound

[@sonic_detour3927]

Best explanation for Vocoders I have ever seen.

[@saavedra1232]

Words cannot express how much love I have in my heart for this video

[@wraithsrequiem9711]

Totally awesome folks!! It nearly sounds like the CS80

[@SilverScarletSpider]

Vocoders are so cool! I like how Soundwave sounds like one in Transformers.

[@localsymbiosis]

The aesthetic of this video is lit

[@synthshoot1026]

Thank you very much. I admit I wasn't mentally ready for this so I had to repeat the first few 10 to 20 seconds three or four times before I started to get it.

[@TransistorSounds]

Haha, very wise to ease yourself in!

[@tinotrivino]

Vocoders lool yes I remember hahahaha I will def sub :) Thanks and again hugs from Toledo, Spain ♥ ♥

[@cone7103]

love your video love your music hope you make more like this

[@Raquel_Incorporated]

_Your rails, your thin, your thin, paper wings..._ Yeah Juanita is a banger! Was lucky enough to see them play it live at Warehouse Project in Manchester a few ago. Underworld are my easily fave band and absolutely phenomenal electronic musicians - glad you like them too, was going to ask about them in your next Q&A haha. Do you have a favourite UW song?

[@TransistorSounds]

Nice! I got pretty obsessed with Dirty Epic a few years ago, which is curious because I used to skip it to get to Cowgirl, but I love it now... I think that whole album slowly grew on me, compared to Beaucoup Fish which I loved from the beginning. I think I got into electronic music in the late '90s and it took me a while to backtrack to appreciating and often preferring the start of the decade. I'm old enough that my taste in music was at least partially influenced by what was on sale in HMV, and what had an interesting looking cover in local (Southend) secondhand shop Golden Disc. That and I probably focus on the soundscapes more than anything else. That made for a lot of rave music!

[@Raquel_Incorporated]

@@TransistorSounds Wow very interesting. Yeah it's a shame that I've stopped buying my music physically. I guess for electronic music it becomes increasingly expensive if you're buying hundreds of singles and remixes etc, whereas with rock/jazz etc you just buy the album and that's it. Btw, I highly recommend "Mmm.. Skyscraper I Love You (Jam scraper remix)". Beautiful piece of ambient early 90s prog house, such a trip! :)

[@TransistorSounds]

@@Raquel_Incorporated Yeah, it took me ages to get over my dislike of compilations and make an exception for house/techno/rave music, given how a lot of it never made it onto albums and it was getting ridiculous getting the singles for just that one popular mix. (The Future Sound of London are an exception, their Lifeforms and Cascade "singles" are essentially bonus mini albums. The same with AFX / Aphex Twin's Ventolin, Hangable Auto Bulb, Donkey Rhubarb, and Come to Daddy EPs.) Now I have a lot of rave compilations released on Dino, K-Tel, and Telstar...

[@Raquel_Incorporated]

@@TransistorSounds Yeah very true about FSOL, although I didn't know so much about AFX I'll have to check those out. I liked Come to Daddy EP but not listened to the others so I'll save them thanks! :)

[@TransistorSounds]

@@Raquel_Incorporated I mean, he's released a few albums too. I wouldn't dive right in with Ventolin, it's a tad abrasive... Donkey Rhubarb's nice though...

[@LiloSound.Soundtracks]

Fantastic. Love it.

[@JaseLovesDub]

Fantastic!

[@KeritechElectronics]

Hey, I just came in and absolutely dig the videos with you two together. You're so lovely!

[@TransistorSounds]

Aww, thank you! ❤️ Yeah, to begin with, at least just learn a key and stick to it at any given time (you can switch keys mid-song though), then everything'll be in tune. There's lots of info to learn eventually, but that's the bare minimum you need to make music that doesn't sound out of tune to people who can hear that sort of thing. Then you can concentrate on intuiting good melodies and making interesting sounds for a bit, then learn more theory later on when you find that too limiting or boring. As someone who grew up when rave music was charting (and also had a tape of demoscene music), outsider art type music's perfectly valid and can be really fun!

[@torvous346]

Great vid. Got yourself another subscriber!

[@strobelightstrobelight]

Hey great video!! Thanks for did it!

[@takushi]

At the annual synth fair We let she try our new vocoder She approached the mike and said: I am a vocoder I am a vocoder I am a vocoder I am a vocoder

[@lagunagfx]

Are you a “Tigres Leones”/Hidrogenesse fan?

[@takushi]

@@lagunagfx hidrogenesse

[@DECIMA1]

Dope stuff!

[@laylahassomethingtosay]

Great video! I have never heard of vocoders that allow you to freeze the modulator💁🏻‍♀️

[@DenZerda]

I don't understand a vocoder's horn, shit I don't even speak english! But I'm here for this nerdy queen, "Martian Wind" is my new mantra to start and end the day 💜

[@alanc6752]

This video gave me a Pipkins vibe. I had totally forgotten about it. A bit weird!

[@frankjamesbonarrigo7162]

Sorry bandpass then into env follower for measurement of volume correct?

[@TransistorSounds]

If you were to make your own vocoder, then you'd need about 8 bandpass filters and envelope followers applied to the modulator signal (the vocal), to output all the CVs to shape the sound... fed into 8 VCAs and another 8 bandpass filters applying those changes to the carrier signal (playing the tune). So you're measuring the volume of each band of the vocal separately, and applying it to each band of the tune separately. I think that's right, off the top of my head. It's definitely easier to just buy a hardwired vocoder. 😄 Basically, yes, that's right, but you'll need a lot of them. (Or a multitrack recorder and a lot of patience.)

[@paulhoovdaddy]

what song is playing at the end?

[@TransistorSounds]

Why, that would be Atomsmasher! from my EP Fight: zoeblade.bandcamp.com/album/fight-feat-aisha-ricketts