
Users could therefore record and modify their own voice and implement the resulting clips in their melodies. The product allowed users to record two-second clips of any sound and play them back instantly. One of the most notable came in 1987, when Yamaha released its VSS-30 Digital Voice Sampler. In the 1980s, multiple companies released keyboards that could record and manipulate sounds and voices. We can, however, point towards a few important milestones. Both are reasonable arguments but the moment the technique was pioneered in a music-production context is more difficult to pinpoint still. You might instead state that vocal chops were born in 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell invented the microphone. We've gathered some of the best Acappella recordings Noiiz has to offer from some of our best female vocalists, making for a must-have collection of free vocal samples.You could argue that the origins of vocal chops came in 1857, at the very moment mankind successfully proved it could record sounds.

Many modern-day producers scour over the internet searching for ‘vocal samples’ to help bring their track to life, whether it’s searching for the perfect lyric, vocal style or ad-lib to creatively chop, slice and mangle.


The first-ever recordings of human voices shortly followed and it’s safe to say we’ve come a long way in that time! From Fatboy Slim's 'Weapon of Choice' to James Blakes 'If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead', the experimentation of chopping and pitch-shifting vocal recordings is showing no sign of slowing down. ‘Acappella’ means ‘in chapel style’ in Italian and is traditionally phrased as two words ‘a cappella’: this expression was originally used for any religious music performed in chapels in the late 18th century.
