I've been working on an IDE for music composition. I'll be launching soon http://ngrid.io
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Ableton Live 11
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Re: Ableton Live 11
#32Not 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.
If you want a DAW that is similar to Ableton and works on Linux, you should go with Bitwig, which is in some ways better and more modern than Ableton, but has a smaller user base.
Re: Ableton Live 11
#33Not 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.
The free software DAW is ardour. https://www.ardour.org/
Unfa has made some youtube videos about (and with) it. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYKj_peyESIMDp5LtHlH2A
It does not offer the same possibilities of workflow though, as far as I can see.
Re: Ableton Live 11
#34What are the upgrade prices like? I might like to buy it, but I don't want a huge bill for upgrading every major version.
$229 for Suite upgrade. I love Live, but it’s getting harder to keep justifying additional money into it as a hobbyist. I might give Logic another go (purchased years ago and still getting free updates), even though it has always felt less intuitive to me than Live for whatever reason.
Edit: I’ve seen other folks online posting a price of $183 for Suite upgrade, so I would just login and see what price they give you. I think I came from Suite 9, so maybe that accounts for the price difference.
Re: Ableton Live 11
#35I haven’t recorded for years, but when I first used Live I fell in love with it instantly. Two of these features (tempo following and velocity chance) are compelling enough I may get back behind a guitar. They were ideas I had years ago and considered trying to build myself but I had no idea where to begin. Good showing, Ableton!
Re: Ableton Live 11
#36Not 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.
"worthy open-sourced competitor to Ableton" is a very tall order, but if we're just looking at open source DAWs, a friend pointed out this one to me recently. https://lmms.io/
Re: Ableton Live 11
#37Not 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.
The free software DAW is ardour. https://www.ardour.org/ Unfa has made some youtube videos about (and with) it. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAYKj_peyESIMDp5LtHlH2A It does not offer the same possibilities of workflow though, as far as I can see.
It's works well for arranging, but doesn't have a scene/clip/looping workflow (yet).
Re: Ableton Live 11
#38Not 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.
If you want a DAW that is similar to Ableton and works on Linux, you should go with Bitwig, which is in some ways better and more modern than Ableton, but has a smaller user base.
Reaper is also worth checking out too - but it doesn't have clips/scenes, which Bitwig does. Bitwig is well thought through, though they have some improvements to be made around the ergonomics of integrating with hardware instruments.
Re: Ableton Live 11
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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?
Following on from the link of the other poster, the Random Access part allows plugins like Melodyne to "see" all the audio data that's on the track all at once, without you having to transfer it inside the plugin manually. You just start working with it seamlessly in an edit window. It's a neat idea.
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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…
I hear you, Ableton actually has pretty great tutorials in the program itself that can help to learn the software as well.