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Ableton Live 11
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Re: Ableton Live 11
#22I have version 9 and have difficulty figuring out how to do simple things with it. Like how do I take an existing MP3 recording and make it one of the tracks but synchronize the beats with those of the existing tracks?
Drag the mp3 onto an audio track, and turn on / adjust the warp settings to set it to the correct tempo.
Thank you for the advice. But even that sounds difficult for a novice like me. How do I "adjust warp settings" so that two tempos are the same? And I don't want to just have the same tempo, I want to align specific beats.
I know there is a forum and documentation but if all my time goes to trying to figure out technical solutions then all my creativity goes into finding technical solutions, rather than solving artistic problems.
Re: Ableton Live 11
#23What are the upgrade prices like? I might like to buy it, but I don't want a huge bill for upgrading every major version.
Re: Ableton Live 11
#24They did it. They finally added comping. I would be buying the upgrade if that was the only feature but there's so many!
For someone like me who uses Logic, is there a reason to use Ableton? Logic is only one $200 lifetime fee
I’ve used both for many years and enjoy both. They’re largely equivalent in function, but they have very different feels. Ableton is more “hands on” and almost modeless. It assumes that you’re always manipulating and reworking things. Logic is more structured and “modeful”. Examples: Ableton defaults to time-stretching and transient slicing for audio; you have to turn it on in Logic. Ableton’s always in what Logic calls “marquee” mode, so you can grab pieces of audio and move them around. Ableton always shows you all the controls of all the (built-in) plugins; Logic makes you open them one by one. Routing in Ableton is dynamic; Logic has fixed “busses” you have to allocate manually.
Other than style, one killer difference is that Ableton has Push hardware, which is really an extension of the UI into physical reality. It’s a fantastic control surface that has no equivalent in Logic-world.
And of course, with all those features you can create amazing live setups with Ableton—thus the name “Live”! Logic’s comfort zone is very much as a studio tool.
Edit: I forgot to mention the higher versions of Live come with Max for Live, which is an amazing construction set for making audio/MIDI software. No Logic equivalent for that.
Re: Ableton Live 11
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seriously. That alone has been one of the big things keeping me firmly in Logic Pro's camp. I'm also glad they're starting to add more instruments to the default package (notably, finally; a proper 'Upright Piano') - as the value proposition of Ableton Standard at $400 vs Logic Pro at $200 has been extremely one-sided in Logic's favour for many, many years now. I do understand, of course; I'm strictly speaking as a M…
It looks like a good update, but I'm starting to give up hope on seeing ARA2 as a feature... :-( Something that wasn't a problem for $200 Logic Pro or even $60 Reaper (with their two-person dev team).
What is ARA2?
Re: Ableton Live 11
#26As a UI and UX nerd, one thing I really love about the digital music production scene is that software companies writing DAWs and VSTs know their audience and strive to give power users all the tools they need to be as productive as possible. Knobs, curves, programming (Max for Live), integration with external tools. In other fields of software development instead we dumb everything down to the lowest denominator, an…
FruityLoops! But yes, I agree with all of this.
Re: Ableton Live 11
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Drag the mp3 onto an audio track, and turn on / adjust the warp settings to set it to the correct tempo.
Thank you for the advice. But even that sounds difficult for a novice like me. How do I "adjust warp settings" so that two tempos are the same? And I don't want to just have the same tempo, I want to align specific beats. I know there is a forum and documentation but if all my time goes to trying to figure out technical solutions then all my creativity goes into finding technical solutions, rather than solving artist…
> if all my time goes to trying to figure out technical solutions
Any musician has to learn their instrument. Commit to that.
Re: Ableton Live 11
#28Not to thread-jack, but are there any worthy open-sourced competitors to Ableton? I'm just getting into DAWs and was thinking of buying Ableton Live but haven't had the time to explore/compare other options. My musician buddies all tell me not to waste my time and just buy it.
Heeey, glad you asked!
I'm not full-time on this, but I'm trying to build an OSS DAW. Here is a first tiny demo: https://timdaub.github.io/wasm-synth/
I also wrote about it: https://timdaub.github.io/2020/02/19/wasm-synth/
Re: Ableton Live 11
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
It looks like a good update, but I'm starting to give up hope on seeing ARA2 as a feature... :-( Something that wasn't a problem for $200 Logic Pro or even $60 Reaper (with their two-person dev team).
What is ARA2?
Re: Ableton Live 11
#30What are the upgrade prices like? I might like to buy it, but I don't want a huge bill for upgrading every major version.
Standard Live 10 -> 11 is 159. It's nested behind a bunch of links.