Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus

The Roland VP-330 Vocoder Plus is a 10-band vocoder from 1979, with string machine. It was used by Phil Collins and Tony Banks.

Phil Collins' Roland VP-330
The VP-330 Vocoder was one of Phil Collins' main keyboard instruments at Old Croft during the early 1980s. It provides the vocoder sounds heard on "In The Air Tonight", "Hand In Hand" and "I'm Not Moving". There appears to have been a Roland RS-202 before at Old Croft, which the VP-330 replaced sometime after March 1980 based on photos... The VP-330 has a similar string sound to the RS-202.

Other than the VP-330, Phil later had the Roland SVC-350 Vocoder, which is the rack-mounted version.

Tony Banks' Roland VP-330
The Roland VP-330 was one of Tony Banks' main instruments during the late 1970s and early 1980s, which replaced the Mellotron M400 during the Duke era. It fulfilled the roles of providing string sounds and choir sounds, as well as the occasional vocoder sounds heard in studio work. Besides Genesis work, the Vocoder appears on The Fugitive (1983, albeit rather extensively) and Bankstatement (1989).

Quotes on the vocoder
"'There are certain instruments which I love, such as the Roland Vocoder. I used it on this record [Bankstatement] and extensively on The Fugitive. I've just had mine MIDIed. I like instruments you can use without doing anything at all to them. You need instruments you can work on for hours but also instruments which immediately sound good when you sit down and play them.'"