I just started out with Ableton Live at the beginning of the year (call it scratching a long time itch) and its been so much fun learning the product. I've just started with a midi keyboard, a pair of headphones and watching a ton of youtube vids.
If you have an inkling to dabble in any kind of music production I highly recommend trying Live...
Ableton Live Developers at Work [video]
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This is a company located in Germany, there are almost no non white people here...
I call doener kebab on that. Almost 10% are from Turkey. Depends on what you mean by almost.
If you count all from Turkish descent in Berlin, then that would be 6%. Most are 'white'.
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#53Wonderful video. I am a white man of european descent so it looks like I would be a great fit to work here.
Well, white and European descent is quite common in Berlin and Germany. That's much of the population there and around. Still, there will be some diversity with people from many European countries, since EU members can move freely in the EU and can easily work in other members states.
Not many women in German software companies is also quite common, unfortunately.
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#54They say they're a German company. Is it common for them to mostly speak English?
if they have lots of foreigners and work for an international market, yes.
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Yeah, only he's a developer. A dog is a useless nuisance in an office.
Hmm. developer dog --------- --- x x hairy x x over-affectionate x x personal hygiene issues x spends time burying bones x spends time buried in code x chasing tail x debugging x can write C++ x x sometimes tries to lick own balls when nobody is looking x succeeds I think I'll take the dog.
Come on, no need to compare programmer hygiene to that of dogs... you'll upset some dogs :-P
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Yeah, only he's a developer. A dog is a useless nuisance in an office.
Hmm. developer dog --------- --- x x hairy x x over-affectionate x x personal hygiene issues x spends time burying bones x spends time buried in code x chasing tail x debugging x can write C++ x x sometimes tries to lick own balls when nobody is looking x succeeds I think I'll take the dog.
Err, in their developer office the desired attributes are "can write C++", "debugging" and "spends time burried in code"...
So back-licking is not that big of an asset.
That said, I've heard that ass-kissing can get you places in some IT companies though...
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Personally I've always found the UI rigid and not quite right, like everything has one level of indirection and/or constraint it doesn't really need. I dislike the fact there's no standard file manager dialog, and the preview doesn't quite do what you expect - sometimes it plays-on-click and sometimes it doesn't, and I have no idea why - and the event editor is hard to navigate, especially if you want to micro-edit,…
It's been a long time since I've used the Acid software, but I don't recall it being aimed at impromptu or live performance. Whereas Live is ... well Live. Wireup all sorts of stuff, forget arrangement view completely (or maybe, leave it running on record), and then just jam out.
I don't agree - while Live was one of the first mature tools for performing, don't be fooled by the name. Studio work, production and arrangement view aren't second class citizens at all in my opinion. I switched from Logic to Live and spend most of my time in arrangement view. The session view is just a bonus for quick sketching for me.
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#58Great video! I'd be interested to see the Avid equivalent (don't get me wrong, I love Pro Tools, but it seems like a culturally different organization).
Trust me ... you really don't. Stripped to shreds by the parent corporation. On last breaths, brought in an ex-Bain asshole who previously worked at the two worst hard drive companies (because music = hard drives, right?) who stripped engineering to the bone. Lost him then promoted an internal guy with no business experience. Who couldn't keep it in his pants at Digi, got swiped by Apple, then booted from there after…
Now that you mention some of that people involved in making audio software: Camel Audio, developers of the highly praised Alchemy Synth, recently closed shop as they were most likely bought by Apple. There's a bunch of talent at Camel Audio - would have been a great addition to the Ableton team in my opinion. Too bad the results of that acquisition will likely only be available through Logic in the future.
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#59Last time I used Ableton (2011), the recording cut off somewhere between 5 and 6 hours. From the email exchange I had with them, this was because they were using 32bit ints instead of 64bit ones. For a company that touts its partnership with Serato, and the ability of their program to work with Serato's DJ tools to specifically record DJ mixes (which can be many hours or even days long), this is absolutely unacceptab…
Since version 9 Live is 64 Bit only. It's an important move, but you always have to deal with musicians who rely on old plugins that won't work in 32 Bit mode - so backwards compatibility is an issue.
correction: They still offer a separate 32 Bit installer - didn't realize, never looked back.
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#60Presumably an unintended consequence, but if I ever found myself needing this software, after watching this video I can't imagine myself pirating it. Ditto for games whose developers I've seen in documentaries (like Indie Games The Movie).
I guess this video is mainly for recruiting, but showing users the people behind the software seems like it would have lots of side benefits.
(I mean I haven't pirated anything in a decade or two anyway, but I can't imagine child-me-who-sometimes-pirated-stuff pirating it. You know what I mean.)