| Abelton Live [message #105312] |
Sat, 22 May 2010 11:52  |
Kateeba
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Hamden, Connecticut
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I was just introduced to this program and had never heard of it and am blown away. Does anyone here use it to compose and record music??
Lou Guarino
Louis Guarino Jr.
www.enchantedvibrations.net
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| Re: Abelton Live [message #105315 is a reply to message #105314] |
Sat, 22 May 2010 12:34  |
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Yep - Ableton rocks. I use it for production in a number of ways - sometimes for taking a bunch of tracks recorded "wild" and locking them to a grid and adding production FX; sometimes ReWired to Logic or to Reaper to manipulate samples or loops against existing beds. I also use it live with a Behringer FCB1010 foot controller too, as a more interactive alternative to running "tracks" for different trio gigs I do (which also puts some challenge and growth back in those gigs for me).
"... being bitter is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other guy to die..." - anon
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| Re: Abelton Live [message #105317 is a reply to message #105316] |
Sun, 23 May 2010 11:39 |
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Sound quality is getting very good nowadays, IMO there are far less concerns about that today than there were in the PARIS heyday. You can definitely use Ableton as a main DAW. Your choice of main DAW nowadays is far less dictated by sonics than it is by the focus of the particular feature sets. Ableton is the reigning king of time manipulation and beat-based or tempo-sync'd production, but although you'll probably want some additional plugins to round out its existing audio tools it's very much up to the challenge of doing other styles of music.
I have my rig set up so that I'm "mixerless" here - everything that hits the preamps goes into PARIS first and is routed into other DAWs from that if desired.
I use three ADAT cards to stream signal between PARIS and my RME 9652 on the same computer. That plus sample-accurate ADAT sync basically gives me "poor man's ReWire" functionality between PARIS and Ableton/Reaper/Reason etc. So depending on the needs of the project I'll go with one of these workflows:
1) Track and mix everything entirely in PARIS
2) Track in PARIS - export to another DAW via AATranslator (sample accurate)
3) Track into PARIS - sync up a second DAW after the fact via ADAT sync (sample accurate) to continue adding production/loops
4) Start in a second DAW like Ableton, flowing signal analog into PARIS then through digitally.
"... being bitter is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other guy to die..." - anon
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| Re: Abelton Live [message #105322 is a reply to message #105312] |
Tue, 25 May 2010 15:48 |
Kateeba
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Registered: August 2005
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Hey Chuck
Best way to catch up for now is Facebook! I just friended you. I got plenty of pictures of me and my family & friends there so it is a start. Also, music videos at my site as well as free music with a trio I am involved in called Telepathy at:
www.enchantedvibrations.net
Let's catch up!!!
Lou
Louis Guarino Jr.
www.enchantedvibrations.net
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