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[Luka]

As most of you would know, Robert Henke tours the world
playing live as Monolake and  is one of the founders of Ableton

When he tours the world he usually gives lectures on Ableton and also his Midi controller the Monodeck

Here is a video of his lecture in NZ

http://video.google....361152922&hl=en

[kraekl]

awesome, thanks Lukey 

[kraekl]

man - he gets some mad sounds out of his bassdrum + delay rack 35 mins in!

[rhythmboy]

Only got thru the first few mins before I felt compelled to say something...

:clap: to Mr Henke for his opening statements regards bit res and fidelity.

Grace Jones 'Slave to the Rhythm' (Trevor Horn) c. 1985 - he states as being a stunningly good sounding album - and mastered in 14 bit with 1st-gen d2a converters.

I remember when at Uni listening to this album over and over again on a mate's big expensive stereo, critically analysing the mixing and arranging. Never failed to reveal new subtleties and surprises, an amazing album. Then again Trev was actually an early embracer of digital, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Seal, Art of Noise, Yello, Marc Almond, Yes and many others were all recorded and mastered with primitive digital gear and lo-res formats by today's standards.

And still they're some of the cleanest, clearest, shiniest sounding albums in my collection.

What Robert says about the marketing myths of 64bit vs 32 bit processing having a noticeably audible difference is great too. One or two knobs at itm should see this video and shut the f up 

Point being we get far too caught up in the numbers game. As Robert says, skill, experience and musicianship is what matters when it comes to making the best records in the world, not equipment.

[kraekl]

"I have a red LED here which lits up when i hit zero dB so i know when i'm clipping even without seeing the computer screen, and depending on my mood and the sound, i either try to avoid the clipping, or i work with it...."

what a champ



the light show at the end is brilliant  :-* :-*

when you makin me one, Luka?

[Luka]

heh
he is right when he talks about the extreme amount of effort that goes into these things
i thought my modular would take me a coupe of months , perhaps a year
im over almost ayear in and i have done fuck all

i have a huge listof shit to build befo e i would thing about  mega-midicontrollerage

[Cheyne]

I went and saw one of Monolakes Ableton workshop / demo things last year at Spank Records ...  Pretty cool ,  he makes whipping up cool sounds in Ableton look unusually easy ...