Comments on: Ableton’s Robert Henke, And Why Sometimes Less (’Fidelity’) is More

By: Trance Pacific

Trance Pacific — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:21:09 +0000

@doh

Werd.

By: doh

doh — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:20:41 +0000

“(In fact, a lot of the electronica sound and its approach to the technology is deeply indebted to American hip-hop and African-American artists.)”

Fact? Deeply indebted? nigga please. electronica sound is completely INDEBTED to folks such as Bob Moog, Dave Smith, Miller Puckette, John Chowning…

By: Phil Bajenski

Phil Bajenski — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:20:58 +0000

I really wish ableton would make live a x64 bit application because that way i can load many more of my live pa samples to ram.

By: Create Digital Music » Albeton Live’s Non-Existent "Secret" Vocoder; No One Needs a Vocoder

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:55:00 +0000

[...] things we’d like to put on t-shirts. This is the same event at which Henke told a crowd that no one needs 64-bit, and sometimes you don’t even need [...]

By: Disquiet » tangents / Video Streams (Shocklee, Monolake, machinima …)

Disquiet » tangents / Video Streams (Shocklee, Monolake, machinima …) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:28:36 +0000

[...] … Minimal techno figure Robert Henke (aka Monolake) presentation (video.google.com, via createdigitalmusic.com). … Laptop-enabled guitarist Christopher Willits lecture on his process (xlr8r.com). … [...]

By: sph9000

sph9000 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:57:17 +0000

“You donâ€™t even need 16-bit all the time”

I totally agree!

I actually really like low-fi sounds, and in these last times I do my best trying to sample old gear instead of using soft synths as VSTs in Live. I find the 80’s electronic music recordings so raw, and sounding much better than modern electronic music.
I understood the reason about this reading about recording techniques, and equipment used those times:
8 or 12bit samplers, FM and analogue synths, analogue mixers, tape recorders…
Is it possible to recreate a similar sound in Ableton now?
Redux doesn’t really match the sound I’m intended to get, which should be like an Emulator II (8bit 27Khz), or an SP1200 (12bit 22Khz), or an AKAI Mpc2000…

By: digital lofi

digital lofi — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:39:11 +0000

@Paul Davis: Ignorance?

I wasn’t trying to make any sort of pro/con argument, and fully admit I’m sorta out of my depth here. I was merely making a comment on who Cakewalk marketing is likely targeting with this boast, other than power-geeks who just want the latest and greatest and the most perceived bang for their buck.

I watched a video online somewhere that showed the inside of a large pro film scoring studio, where they had a server room of PCs networked, and a huge 128(?) channel board/controller. It was enlightening about who these companies are targeting with some these more high-spec features.

But what do I know? I work at 44.1/24. I keep the 64bit signal chain engaged but more from inertia – really what harm can it do?

By: digital lofi » BeatBurner: A Mini Review

digital lofi » BeatBurner: A Mini Review — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:47:38 +0000

[...] they are – off the top of my head I can think of 4 things I wish it did or did better – but since we’re all more or less in agreement that what sounds good is good no matter what goddamn bit-rate it was recorded at, it is a nice tool for getting some new use out [...]

By: Paul Davis

Paul Davis — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:47:10 +0000

And honestly I think itâ€™s more of selling point to audio production house and film scoring studios, where high-definition audio is actually important.

Man, these companies have technology users eating out their hand :) What makes you think that 64 bit versus 32 bit floating point is about high definition audio?

By: digital lofi

digital lofi — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:14:52 +0000

Just thought I’d point out, nothing in Sonar forces you to use the 64-bit signal chain; it’s easy enough to turn off. And honestly I think it’s more of selling point to audio production house and film scoring studios, where high-definition audio is actually important. i.e. Going more for the Nuendo market than the Ableton market. Though I guess the lines are more blurry than ever.

But I heartily agree with you, Peter.