Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site iham1.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!iham1!rwn
From: rwn@iham1.UUCP (Bob Neumann)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Vocoder info request
Message-ID: <310@iham1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 11:34:39 EST
Article-I.D.: iham1.310
Posted: Fri Feb 15 11:34:39 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 16-Feb-85 07:02:34 EST
Distribution: net
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lines: 22

Has anyoe had experience with low-cost vocoders?
I have owned a KORG VC-10 vocoder (the one with the built-in
keyboard) for about five years and would like to upgrade to
a better instrument. I paid around $600 for the Korg
but do not want to spend $5,000 or so for a Bode, Sennheiser,
etc.

The Korg VC-10 is noisy at the output- whether
I use the internal keyboard or an external synth. Also, the 
sensitivity of each of the voice "analyser channels"
cannot be adjusted, which forces me to use outbord effects or different
synth patches for any type of change in the vocoder's basic
sound.

The only other vocoder I have seen recently is the Roland rack-mount unit
that has the hold function and a switchable chorus.  It's nice,
but my cost for the device new would be $800, and I would like to know
if a better vocoder is available near this price range.

				Bob Neumann
				BTL-IH (312)-979-6533