We can add this to the long list of things we’d like to put on t-shirts. Here’s the problem: just a few days after the video, Ableton co-founder Robert Henke had this to say about vocoders - hilariously:
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The really amazing thing is this comes up today, again, when shortly after the original video was widely debunked earlier this year. (Look out, Apple "i"! And will that get people high, like the sphere in Woody Allen’s Sleeper?) No One Needs a Vocoder – Henke It seems zany, but then this is the week when the mainstream computer tech blogosphere is speculating about the likelihood of Microsoft switching to spherical interfaces. (Another side note: I just got to link to Geocities! And it’s still running!) (Side note: I prefer Catmull splines, myself.) And it turns out David Zicarelli was on the grassy knoll working for the CIA, or something. Live fans go even further, so that the Vocoder - hang on, it’d need a simpler Ableton-y name, like … uh … Carrier or Encoder - is part of a massive conspiracy by which Ableton keeps you from getting the bezier-curve envelopes you really want. But, of course, the hint of something new in Live has now upstaged that original video. I actually really recommend the Inside Ableton MusoTalk video (German) it’s a great little feature. I’ve been hearing buzz about this for weeks, but Garret Collins is the latest. The myth goes something like this: a camera crew doing a behind-the-scenes look at Ableton’s Berlin office accidentally captures a brief moment in which an unreleased vocoder appears in the bottom part of the screen. I haven’t necessarily been following Live’s forums lately, but apparently one of the hot-button issues lately was a rumored "secret" vocoder in a future build of Ableton Live. Just watch the video / sample it in your next Live set.
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And other than that, there’s a lot of me talking without really have any idea what I’m talking about - which is why I usually don’t post on Sundays.
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The best part of this story is the remixed “no one needs a vocoder” video, which encapsulates electronic music’s current love/hate/cliche relationship with the thing. Ableton may or may not have a vocoder in the works (signs actually do point to yes on that).