It adjusts the level of the frequency bands to shape the sound of the output of the combined sounds. Sometimes there are knobs to adjust things and it looks like a graphic EQ. Your synthesizer, or guitar, or ocean waves become the melodic content determining what notes will sound.ģ. The envelope of when sounds start and stop.Ģ. Your voice (or your drum machine or whatever) becomes the rhythm. Things are hard, and why are you yelling at me?ġ. No… the mystery of the vocoder is elaborately explained everywhere. Well if you really want to get that freaky robot voice going, all you have to to is fly to the edge of the immediate solar system and dock at the outpost, find a friendly centurion and ask them to say your words and record it.ĭuh.