CREATIVE VOCODING IN FL STUDIO

evolutionary since its timely invention in 1938, the vocoder has miraculously granted all the power to sing for almost a century. It has become a staple of the electronic musician’s sound-mangling toolset too. Conceived on the cusp of World War II, back when sending high-quality voice via transmission consumed a large amount of bandwidth, it took Bell Labs scientist Homer Dudley to first experiment with degrading the quality with his newly assembled tool, the vocoder. With this, users could speak into a microphone and hear a degraded copy of their voice that could easily be sent as a simpler telecommunication, therefore reserving precious bandwidth for other needs during the conflict. Most people, however, think first of artists such as Daft Punk and Zed when considering the legacy