MOTM

>[By the way, it's "Vocoder" for "Vocal Encoder / Decoder," not "Voco*r*der."
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>I hear a lot of people say it that way thinking that it's related to a
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>'recorder' but that's not the case.]



Thank god someone pointed that out to me, I feel like such a fool. All my
life I have heard people refer to this piece of equipment as a "vocoRder"
never realizing there is no "R" in the word.



>Wendy Carlos made a vocoder out of two Moog Fixed Filter Banks, ten EFs and
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>ten VCAs for use in Timesteps and the Beethoven's Ninth parts of the
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>Clockwork Orange soundtrack. There are photos of it in the booklet from her
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>new S-O-Bach boxed set.


If I recall correctly those weren't standard fixed filter banks, Bob Moog
had specially modified them ( a 914 & 907) along with the envelope
followeres and VCA's to work as a vocoder. Was is actually a true vocoder?
-Nate