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- From: EIVERSO@cms.cc.wayne.edu
- Subject: Re: techno equipment
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 03:31:03 GMT
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- cs90rwr@brunel.ac.uk (Hacienda) writes:
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- >EIVERSO@cms.cc.wayne.edu wrote:
- >: Kraftwerk uses many things to get voice effects including; real voice,
- >: singing computers, speak and spell, vocoders, an Amiga (whoops! :) ).
- >
- >A lot of what Kraftwerk use is designed by themselves and their crew of
- >electrical engineers. I have a feeling that they have designed their own
- >vocoders (were vocoders around when 'Ohm Sweet Ohm' and 'Autobahn' were
- >originally released ?).
-
- Isn't it obvious from listening to those songs? Yes.
- In fact, the vocoder was invented by Homer Dudley in the '30s.
- Walter Carlos used one in music for the '70 soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange.
- Kraftwerk's first vocoder was built for them by Sennheiser in the '70s.
- They also use standard EMS vocoders.
-
- >The speak and spell appeared on the 'Computer Love' album (the start up tune is
- >played at the beginning of 'It's More fun to Compute'), but after that, it was
- >all vocoders. I'm not too sure about the Amiga though.
-
- I think that was actually a speech synthesizing computer. They also used
- a pocket language translator. I was kidding about the Amiga.
-
- >Elektric Music (ex-Kraftwerk) have used computer speech packages - the 'Baby
- >Come Back' track on RubyTrax is an example of this. However, they also use
- >vocoders (like in the Planet Rock remix).
-
- >For more info on Kraftwerk, and what they use, read Music Technology last
- >month.
-
- Thanks for the advice.
-
-
-
- --Eric ///\\
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