Isn't it cute? It's a little polyphonic 20-band vocoder offered by Korg. Feed it your voice (or any other interesting sound source) and synthesize it! That is, control the sound of the synth with your voice. You can even put other sounds through its filters which will then be processed by the vocoder. This basically means you can use it as a talk-box with a guitar, for example or you can use it to add a twist to your drum loops. Other than that this machine is pretty limited. There's a nifty little analog VCU input meter. It has been used by Keith Emerson, Apollo 440, Klaus Schulze, Tomita, Labradford, Rick Wakeman, Roger Waters, Joe Zawinul, Tangerine Dream, Goldfrapp, Air, and Yes.

19 VISITOR COMMENTS

Matt

January 9, 2012 @ 1:03 pm

Does this have an input for carrier, or only for formant?

anonymous

September 23, 2011 @ 1:54 am

Btw, someone from England recently sold a Korg VC-10 owner's manual on eBay and got just over $65US for it. And mine is in better (and the service manual) are in better condition than his. I LOVE VOCODERS!!!!!

anonymous

September 23, 2011 @ 1:53 am

I actually found an old owner's manual and service manual (after my comments here) that I got from Korg years ago (I forgot I had them). I couldn't believe it when I found-out that it does INDEED have 20-channels!!! But those twenty channels are nonadjustable unlike the Roland SVC-350 Vocoder and the EMS Vocoders which have adjustable channels. My deepest and sincerest apologies to all.

Nonnie

August 21, 2011 @ 8:00 am

Yeah, it's 20 channels vocoder: look here the PDF manuals

http://www.korganalogue.net/korgms/service/vc10/Korg- VC10-Service-Manual.pdf

Astronauta Pinguim

January 11, 2011 @ 1:21 pm

I have one since 2006. Hard to find here in Brazil, even being a cheap machine in its time...

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