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Ableton Live 11

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Re: Ableton Live 11

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post #13

Not 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.

And do any of them have hidpi support? When I tried, it ended up being impossible to use for example lmms on an 200 dpi screen

Re: Ableton Live 11

#42
Something I find interesting is that they're adding built-in entropy to this update. You will now be able to set the probability that a MIDI note will fire in a melody. Or set a range of probabilities for the velocity value of a MIDI note. I'm sure that you will be able to map the range probabilities to the ADSR of synths etc... I'm curious if that is more of a novelty or will actually be a valuable tool for exploring ideas.

Re: Ableton Live 11

#44

I've been working on an IDE for music composition. I'll be launching soon http://ngrid.io I setup a discord channel the project https://discord.gg/a5ttYuG

Sounds coll but the pitch doesn't have much detail. Which DAW workflows will it support to start with?

Re: Ableton Live 11

#45
post #4

As 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…

I remember the first time I saw Reason's cable system, it was so pleasant to use. The software makes you happy. Music software not only does something, it also does something in style, I really appreciate the details given for each little things.

Re: Ableton Live 11

#46
post #44

I've been working on an IDE for music composition. I'll be launching soon http://ngrid.io I setup a discord channel the project https://discord.gg/a5ttYuG

Sounds coll but the pitch doesn't have much detail. Which DAW workflows will it support to start with?

Which ones would you want?

Re: Ableton Live 11

#47

Something I find interesting is that they're adding built-in entropy to this update. You will now be able to set the probability that a MIDI note will fire in a melody. Or set a range of probabilities for the velocity value of a MIDI note. I'm sure that you will be able to map the range probabilities to the ADSR of synths etc... I'm curious if that is more of a novelty or will actually be a valuable tool for explorin…

People seem to love this probability trigger feature in Elektron products.

Re: Ableton Live 11

#48

I've been working on an IDE for music composition. I'll be launching soon http://ngrid.io I setup a discord channel the project https://discord.gg/a5ttYuG

sounds nice but the page has no content to speak of: a bit disappointing.

Re: Ableton Live 11

#49
post #4

As 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…

My impression is that's only true in consumer software and web development.

CAD, rendering/animation, high end photo editing, and a lot of other higher end, professional software are script-able, provide libraries and APIs, and work closely with their end-users to give them what they want.

Re: Ableton Live 11

#50
post #13

Not 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.

Radium is worth a try: http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php
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