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A talk box (also spelled talkbox and talk-box) is an effects unit that allows musicians to modify the sound of a musical instrument by shaping the frequency content of the sound and to apply speech sounds (in the same way as singing) onto the sounds of the instrument. Typically, a talk box directs sound from the instrument into the musician's ...
An electronic tanpura is an electronic instrument that replicates the sound of an Indian string instrument known as the tanpura (tambura), used to provide a constant drone to accompany another's vocal or instrumental melody.
An immersive virtual musical instrument, or immersive virtual environment for music and sound, represents sound processes and their parameters as 3D entities of a virtual reality so that they can be perceived not only through auditory feedback but also visually in 3D and possibly through tactile as well as haptic feedback, using 3D interface metaphors consisting of interaction techniques such ...
"California Love" by 2Pac and Roger Troutman is a more recent recording featuring a talk box fed with a synthesizer instead of guitar. Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips used the talk box on parts of the group's eleventh album, At War with the Mystics , to imitate some of Wayne Coyne 's repeated lyrics in the "Yeah Yeah Yeah Song".
The most common device is a handheld, battery-operated device pressed against the skin under the mandible which produces vibrations to allow speech; [1] other variations include a device similar to the "talk box" electronic music device, which delivers the basis of the speech sound via a tube placed in the mouth. [2]
Variophon at the Technisches Museum Wien. A Variophon is an electronic wind instrument invented in 1975 by researchers at the University of Cologne.It synthesizes sounds using the principle of most common brass instruments, creating sounds based on the vibration of the player's lips and breath and the resonance in a particular body. [1]
While the Roland D-50 from 1987 is probably the first affordable virtual analog synthesizer, [1] the term was not used until the 1990s when the Nord Lead came out. [2] Examples of VA synthesizers include: Access Virus line of VA synths; AKAI Miniak virtual analog synthesizer from AKAI Professional; Alesis Ion, Micron and Fusion; Arturia Origin
Peter Frampton's Heil Talk Box from 1973. The Heil Talk Box became famous after being used by Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, and Richie Sambora. [5] The device blended the sound of voice and guitar. [15] It was the first high-powered talk box on the market which could reliably be used on high-level rock stages. The Heil Talk Box was developed in ...