Usually priced at $49, SynthMaster One is an approachable wavetable synth with an intuitive workflow and some stellar filters ...

Kirk was born Ronald Theodore Kirk in Columbus, Ohio, but felt compelled by a dream to transpose two letters in his first name to make Roland. In 1970, Kirk added "Rahsaan" to his name. Preferring to ...

Abstract: The quality of raw audio waveform generated by a vocoder could affect various audio generative tasks. In recent years, the dominance of source-filter vocoders was greatly challenged by ...

Abstract: Inspired by the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in speech processing, this paper presents Deep Vocoder, a direct end-to-end low bit rate speech compression method with deep ...

In the 1970s, guitar-centric rock culture largely looked at synthesizer players as nerds who needed to get a life. The following decade, it was the revenge of the nerds. Suddenly the ball was in the ...