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Korg • VC-10 Vocoder

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.

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cla

Posted 162 days ago

anonymous you are wrong. it is a 20 band vocoder. schematics are clear. please stop posting incorrect information

LPR

Posted 322 days ago

VC-10 in hot action ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vICSM7a53 MM

Ross

Posted 335 days ago

I swear that Tommy Mars of Frank Zappa's band used it on the 1981 tour.

Max

Posted 342 days ago

anonymous may be confusing the VC-10 with the Microkorg, a much newer synth with an 8-band vocoder.

Roger

Posted 376 days ago

The VC-10 certainly does vocode through a 20 channel analyser. I have a copy of the circuit diaghram. I also own one in preference to the Roland SVC-350 which I sold about 5 years ago. The Korg is a very effective vocoder when played with appropriately-rich carrier sources, although the built-in tone source is adequate to get you started.

The 20 channel assertion is correct - the 8 channel statement from "anonymous" is wrong.

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