Autechre Autechre - Exai

8 more bits is like an extra super mario melody

lol

  On 1/8/2013 at 3:08 AM, Awepittance said:

I've noticed warp are selling 24-bit waves of a lot of other stuff these days, makes me wonder if these masters are being sent to them in 24-bit format. If they are then i wonder if the musicians who delivered content in 24-bit waves is actually sourcing material in the 24-bit domain up until the point of exporting.

Probably not. 24bit is laughable to me anyway since the Red Book standard is still 16/441. And not even getting into territories of "Can we hear a difference" either.

It just makes me chuckle to think about Warp sorting a 24bit wavfile of something that AE could very well have made using massively bitcrushed samples on old samplers. There's truly something hilarious there.

Yeah, I still don't see the point of having a 24-bit WAV version, if nobody can hear (or even prove) the difference.

you guys aren't saying that it's a snake oily maneuver designed to drive hardcore collectors to bleep.com for purchasing music are you? because that would be extremely un-called for and offensive

144 dB vs 96 dB!

All I can tell you non-believers is that the 24bit wavs are louder, more substantial, more colourful and whenever I listen to them my angry stepfather calms down and stops beating me.

My special iPod has a 144dB dynamic range, because it is special.

  On 1/8/2013 at 10:06 AM, Awepittance said:

you guys aren't saying that it's a snake oily maneuver designed to drive hardcore collectors to bleep.com for purchasing music are you? because that would be extremely un-called for and offensive

 

 

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Oh no, we'd never say that. Not about Warp. They always have the best intentions and really, after so many needlessly deluxe and expensive editions of the records they've released in 2011-2012, it's totally obvious that they're rolling in money and therefore have no reason at all to try to get more from us, just because we love them and we trust them. They love us back, right?

I'd think most pros like AE will be running in at least 24bit (both audio and VST) in whatever host program they use these days it's just a matter of your soundcard being up to scratch.

  On 1/9/2013 at 3:48 PM, soundwave said:

I'd think most pros like AE will be running in at least 24bit (both audio and VST) in whatever host program they use these days it's just a matter of your soundcard being up to scratch.

Ae have been recording in 24-bit for a while and I know they're super-fussy about Warp properly encoding their stuff so I would trust that any 24bit Ae stuff purchased from Warp would be legit.

Nothing is gonna doom this groove.

Everything i thought i knew, is now gone..... that clip is pure bliss.

  On 1/8/2013 at 11:32 AM, psn said:

144 dB vs 96 dB!

Not exactly.

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16 bit audio can go considerably deeper than 96dB. With use of shaped dither, which moves quantization noise energy into frequencies where it's harder to hear, the effective dynamic range of 16 bit audio reaches 120dB in practice, more than fifteen times deeper than the 96dB claim.

 

120dB is greater than the difference between a mosquito somewhere in the same room and a jackhammer a foot away.... or the difference between a deserted 'soundproof' room and a sound loud enough to cause hearing damage in seconds.

 

16 bits is enough to store all we can hear, and will be enough forever.

Source: http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

  On 1/12/2013 at 10:15 AM, fumi said:

 

Nothing is gonna doom this groove.

wow. just----abdcefgizzaackualization my brizzornos to the brizzornial brizzornation!

  On 1/13/2013 at 8:23 AM, Ego said:

144 dB vs 96 dB!

 

Not exactly.

 

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16 bit audio can go considerably deeper than 96dB. With use of shaped dither, which moves quantization noise energy into frequencies where it's harder to hear, the effective dynamic range of 16 bit audio reaches 120dB in practice, more than fifteen times deeper than the 96dB claim.

 

120dB is greater than the difference between a mosquito somewhere in the same room and a jackhammer a foot away.... or the difference between a deserted 'soundproof' room and a sound loud enough to cause hearing damage in seconds.

 

16 bits is enough to store all we can hear, and will be enough forever.

Source: http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

that quote says it all.

dither.

in other words, the sound isn't accurate to the source.

Well it would have quantization errors if it wasn't dithered. You can't hear the random noise added by dithering. You can't hear the noise floor of a well dithered 16-bit file. The sound is accurate to the ears.

The sound of Exai will be accurate to my ears.

Also, I completely agree with Ego.

Havin' some problems there Mr. Eggs?

  On 12/22/2012 at 8:36 PM, kaini said:

track from exai at 1:05!

https://soundcloud.com/failme/failcast-issue-019-mayan

whoa! fuck!

As in 1 hour 5 minutes in, rather than 1 minute 5 seconds

the moment the pad starts at 1:09:25.....holy shit. i cannot wait to hear the whole album

I ripped the track out of the original recording, and tried to upload it to Youtube, but it blocked it, saying "Autechre-spl9", sound recording administered by: 0:03

[Merlin] Warp Records"

Thanks for the name of the track, Youtube/Warp!

all my excitement for this stopped after reading pixelives posts

blue balls / premature ejaculation

nothin left

will take a total reset at this point

wat

I want to hear it even more now! That said, the new PVT is out soon, which should satisfy me until exai comes out. Maybe even enough to avoid the inevitable leak!