Phase vocoders

[Macca]

Frampton's Talkbox was not the same as a vocoder and though I may well be wrong, I thought Cher's effort was autotune from within Pro Tools..?

https://www.soundonsound.com/techniq...g-cher-believe

"I played around with the vocals and realised that the vocoder effect could work, but not with the Korg — the results just weren't clear enough. So instead, I used a Digitech Talker — a reasonably new piece of kit that looks like an old guitar foot pedal, which I suspect is what it was originally designed for [see review in SOS April 1998]. You plug your mic straight into it, and it gives you a vocoder-like effect, but with clarity; it almost sounds like you've got the original voice coming out the other end. I used a tone from the Nord Rack as a carrier signal and sequenced the notes the Nord was playing from Cubase to follow Cher's vocal melody

[dave2010]

Looks as though there was an interesting article on vocoders in SOS in January 1994. Is there an archive from which such articles can be liberated?