The Ableton Vocoder Part 2 of 2

[Brainbox97]

So i could play and record separately and it would still work?

[KennyParkz]

@Brainbox97 yup.. you can change your audio... "voice" while keeping your midi.. or vice verse you can keep the audio but change the notes of the midi

[mrjaywilliams]

Can you do a live clinic on the Texas instrument ?

[DJVATION]

SO GOOD! Thank you man!

[slimcatch]

amazing!!

[parkota]

ive gotten the vocoder to work but the output with the phrasing of my voice comes out to slowly(not like seconds slow but surely out of time) ... im using the fl studio rewired playback as my carrier (it plays just fine and in time without the vocoder) is this the problem??.....or could it be beacause im using the mic from my headphones and those are the ones lagging?? as i also note the bars dont go up just as i speak, they also lag... or maybe something i didnt set up right within ableton??

[mitch7568]

Thanks a lot!!!

[stealthbopper]

Excellent tutorial - very detailed and clear. Thanks

p.s is that a Speak & Spell behind your head? Circuit bent?

[DJPelio]

how do you extract that clip, and use it as a loop? I am seeing it as a loop, but don't hear any audio from it...

[theones77]

that's pretty damn awesome.

it's good for those rae vocals and for people who can't sing. like me :D

[riccoutube2]

Huston, Yo! This is Ricco Lumpkins. U are still a beast on that vocoder. One of the best bro. B-Brown- You Got Me Wrapped

I am finally on the Ableton now.

[WC7495]

You are the best dude. I had not the slightest idea how to route stuff correctly. Helped out TONS.

[OMGlvl86turtlepilot]

also, when i try to record external sounds (my voice) i get building feedback that nearly blows out my ears. how do I fix this? do i need a sound card, or mic?

[OMGlvl86turtlepilot]

amazing video.

how would i go about vocoding a vocal sample? I have some rap acapellas that i wanna vocode, but when I drag the sample into the vocoder and try to use a carrier, it only plays that chord whenever there's sound.

[132456789asdfghjkl]

how can i activate preferences if i have ableton for windows 7

[rounce55]

when i play it back i can't hear the audio track, only brass.

[FreestyleEntOnline]

@rounce55 same here did you already figoured it out?

[mbolkovic]

great tutorial!

[djseriousbizness]

Righteous!

[DjASHERBLAZE]

thank you, great tutorial !!

[Puppetarm]

HUSTON RULES

[pengam2006]

brilliant tutorial... imogen heap here i come.

[nahneenkula]

It would have been funny if he did the whole tutorial with the vocoder turned on the whole time. lolololol

[qoaa]

Thank you! I've been wondering how to set this up...major newbie but starting to get the hang of it

[asfbi]

why does mone not sound the same lol

[heartpeep]

@asfbi me too, DO YOU NEED A GOOD MIC FOR THIS TO WORK DECENT?

[SideWindZ]

Now this is great. Just out of curiosity, what MIDI Controller are you using?

[vtmband]

I can play octaves.... or very low stuff

[Consciousish]

Its so easy and straightforward, thanks Ableton rocks

[hevanescencarrillo]

Ok this is easier than I thought! thank you... but I cant get the vocoder play exactly when I sing, it has kind of a delay, in other words: I sing a note, and like a second after the vocoder plays the note, how can I make the vocoder play when Im singing? :(

[IkkeBareAnders]

@hevanescencarrillo That happened to me to when i used a midi track with a late attack, just raise the attack ore use an other track ;)

[hevanescencarrillo]

@IkkeBareAnders Thanx! but im new into MIDI and into Ableton... how can I raise the attack? :(

[scottjknox]

@hevanescencarrillo Sounds like you may have to adjust your Driver Error Compensation. There is a lesson in Ableton on how to do it. Hope this helps!

[scottjknox]

@hevanescencarrillo Sounds like you need to adjust your Driver Error Compensation. There is a lesson in Ableton on how to do it.

[sobitech1]

One thing I didn't quite get... I need a MIDI Keyboard and use it with the vocoder to make robotic vocals?

[TheFishWalking]

@sobitech1 just use piano roll.

[ctmexperiment]

@sobitech1 not even. you can write in the notes you want to play without using a keyboard. If you don't have a midi controller, ableton uses your computer keyboard as a default controller if you feel the need to "play" something. Otherwise just write them in by hand.

[DanFarrant]

That's a bunch

This is just what I needed

Long live Stevie Wonder

[bassmzero]

Is there a way to use the vocoder without the synth in order to get the "electrified" sound

[DeadWhiteButterflies]

It'd be interesting to use, but then i'd probably spend too much time doing Portal jokes. XD

[dj3bycuchillo]

Some people like me are not that inteligent like you

So you must do this step by step

Like 4. Example how do you put the synth inside the vocoder and if i want to do this not with my voice

With a regular acapella

[EEZAL]

golden tutorial !!!!

[ltitruck12]

Thanks..

[DonPohlino]

Can anybody tell me which chords Huston uses for "or I can play all kinds of choooords"? This is really catchy and I would like to use it in a project in some kind of way...

Otherwise I'd have to figure it out via trial & error out of those midi lines...well that would suck...HAHA..._:-/

[deterdetsamma2]

@DonPohlino do it by ear instead, that way you train your ear as well!

[DonPohlino]

@deterdetsamma2

yes, it is always good to be ambitious but unfortunately I am not that good and not that much off the pay roll that I really have time to figure out 2 five note chords by ear - sorry, that is the reason why I asked...

[DonPohlino]

I honestly just watched the video 5 times or more because of the cool licks he plays - amazing!

[superaxel1981]

Fking amazing... I am gonna do a vocoder-based track right away lol

[armatron44]

okay i can hear the vocoder when im not recording i can hear my voice changing pitch and whatnot but as soon as i finish recording a part i cannot hear the voice at all, help please :)

[TheZono50]

I do everything the video says, and My voice plays back with my regular voice, I have spent weeks trying to figure this out! UGHH

[Tacadoband]

Im confused - when you show us the brass synth sound by its self its very clean, but when you use the instrument on the vocoder combined with your voice, the sound seems to have a slight reverb/echo at the end. Did you add a reverb or is that just the way it works?

[Badmoodboy]

Great tutorial thanks. Ableton rules

[frankiecutlass1985]

That video was almost as tight as his shirt.

[pescaboy]

@frankiecutlass1985 but you have to admit. he is a monster! haha

[SOULGOODgroup]

The best tutorial and info about vocoding!

Everything you need to know is explained.

thx

[djkoopz]

I want to work for Ableton!

[djkoopz]

Huston is a pimp!

[Vferatu]

awesome. I can't sleep without this stuff. I'm hearing vocoders in my head. awesome.

[mrdeecup]

this is so freakin' amazing! im making a tune w/ the vocoder now, thanks Huston!

[MikeHall683]

awesome tutorial... but you need a bigger shirt haha

[IBlameEdison]

Great tutorial, I'm buying a midi keyboard tomorrow and I can't wait to do some vocoding.

[NateDawg80126]

@IBlameEdison Getting me one after Christmas, really exited to try this too. What are you getting? I got my eyes set on the new Novation Mk II.

[ukrides]

@IBlameEdison what keyboard u getting ?

[antichris78]

great tutorial, big thanks. love the pitch bending at the end!

[sonnybrown]

dope dude.  Thanks!

[illrad50]

Worth getting if only so you can sound like a Cylon ;)

[W2Best]

Wonderful Video! :)

[mmurray21]

really nice video, but from a product standpoint there a way too many steps. You should be able to select the vocoder as a filter and have it automatically ready to play.

[thisisfuckinglame]

@mmurray21 yeah...wouldn't want to have to work for your sound. do you like your food pre-chewed too?

[mmurray21]

Yeah, your right. Who wants easier to use software anyway. 10 clicks is too few! They should make everything take 20 clicks. Wouldn't want to pre-chew users food.

[psychohagis]

its not that complicated really. And once uve done it once u can save ur preffered set up in a rack.

Theyre trying to keep ur options as open as possible rather than giving u a very specific device for creating robot voices but that cant do anything else

[isoza]

that would be great. because I dont want to hear any variation in the music i hear. it should all sound the same. I hate having to choose drum sounds as well. Can we just have one drum kit that the whole world uses?

[fermixx]

what would be the result of using the same audio recorded for the carrier input?

i need to try this out when i get a mic.

anyways for those who havent a mic, you can plug your big headphones into a mic input and talk to the ear part and the audio will enter the computer anyways.

dunno why but it works.

[Slierm]

microphones and speakers are based on the same principal, essentially they are the same but they have opposite signals

[spazdor]

When you vocode an audiosignal *against itself*, the result just sounds like a really excitable comb-filter.

[holtymusic]

Fantastic!, Can you save the whole setup as an instrument, like you would save a customized rack? Find that perfect sound and you will want to use it in another project, without reconstructing it.

[AbletonInc]

Yes you can. Just save it as a Rack Device. This way your input and output levels are saved as well as all the parameters within the Vocoder Device.

[soulhund]

How do you save as a Rack Device? Can't find in the manual?

[guriboy]

Nice video. Next time turn off the damn metronome off after you're done recording. :-)

[skatechatham]

turning up portamento or glide on your synth makes good effects, or using a pitch bend envelope

[Spazimusic]

haha funny stuff, thx man :D

[TheAdventuresOfKhris]

maybe i'm not completely understanding how it works, but what exactly are you doing when the sound output is just the vocoder and your actual voice stops coming through?

[AbletonInc]

Just muting the real time voice on camera since that is not what is desired in the final mix.

[aaronzilch0]

@TheAdventuresOfKhris Traditionally, the modulator signal is never heard coming through a vocoder, the modulator basically just opens up the filter bands to allow the frequencies it shares with the carrier ( which is what you are actually hearing, a filtered version of the carrier sound ) at a given time to come through. That is why you want a spectrally rich, "thick", sustaining sound for the carrier ( such as a pad, noise, or square wave based synth sounds ) and a spectrally dynamic modulator

[em0jr]

I need a MIC!!!

[flaresama]

Me too! I want to try this out!

[johnnykilroy9394]

I really need to update to Suite 8...

[doinkschta55]

Excellent. Thank you.

[rss313]

GREAT vids, been waiting for an easy explanation like this. One question, how much power do you recommend in a Mac running ableton? I'm about to buy a macbook, mostly for music production.

[andrew0596]

i'd love to high five the team that developed the vocoder!

[Auriculum]

Top notch stuff! Keep'em coming!

[SamplesKilledMusic]

Thanks again.

[djdlg]

Awesome!!

[akterminded]

Better than Autotune!