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Ableton Live Developers at Work [video]

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Re: Ableton Live Developers at Work [video]

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Post by nek4life »

exodust wrote: post #78
fenomas wrote: post #60

Presumably 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…

Pirating software of this kind is often not about "stealing with evil intent" but more about "I literally have no money but want to mess around with this software for personal use." It's a marketing video. "cue happy moment"..."cue warm and fuzzy employee interaction". It might make some people want to pirate the software even more! That said, you can't pirate the Ableton Push hardware, which is where it's at for thi…

The original prototype for push was built in Lego and Akai did a great job turning it into real hardware. Really cool project and makes Live so much fun to use.

http://www.askaudiomag.com/articles/interview-ableton-push-c...

Re: Ableton Live Developers at Work [video]

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Post by andybak »

partisan wrote: post #44
andybak wrote: post #4

For people not familiar with it, Ableton is an astonishing piece of content-creation software. When it came out it felt revolutionary in terms of speed, solidity and cleanliness of the UI.

Content-creation software. Like Microsoft Word? Like Adobe Photoshop?

I'm not sure what you're getting at here?

Re: Ableton Live Developers at Work [video]

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Post by unepipe »

joesmo wrote: post #17

Last 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…

Sounds like you had a bad experience, but as others have said, the Ableton has changed substantially in the past 5 years. Ableton 9 came out in March of 2013, at which point the time limit issue would be resolved.

Regarding the interface being unintuitive, I think that could be true for those who are experienced in standard linear DAW workflows, and I could see how it could feel unintuitive for someone looking to record a Serato DJ session. It's got a lot of tools for music production, and you'd need to be in Arrangement view, not session view.

As a software developer and someone who likes to mess around in music production, the interface became incredibly intuitive once I did the (included) software tour and learned the difference between Arrangement View and Session View, and what could be accomplished in those.

In terms of music production (not DJing), the way instruments and effects are set up reminds me of objects, where you have data and methods. You create sound clips on instruments which are kind of like functions you can reuse. (Just a loose analogy)

If you build a bunch of clips on instruments in the Session view of these you can use them together to create a song that you improvise somewhat, within the sounds and drumbeats that you have pre-created. It's really fun if you play with it and get accustomed to how the software works!

Re: Ableton Live Developers at Work [video]

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Post by tripzilch »

Kiro wrote: post #67
kentt wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps, but I've never shit on the floor, so I've got that going for me.

If you think dogs just randomly poops on the floor you really don't know much about dogs. I really don't understand people who hate animals. To be honest they are sociopaths in my eyes.

There's a difference between hating animals and being uncomfortable around them, or less able to concentrate on your work.

Disclaimer: I like dogs and probably wouldn't mind having one around during work. But if one of my coworkers would have problems with that, that should be taken into account and we should discuss it, work it out. Wording it differently than "people who hate animals" would probably help that discussion :)

Re: Ableton Live Developers at Work [video]

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Post by JDiculous »

Nice to get a glimpse at their work environment.

Ableton, please fix your piano roll (make it like FL Studio's)! I've emailed you guys before, and even made a Youtube video showing why I hate it.

I love Ableton Live, but I really hope the open source community for music software matures to a point where it's comparable with Ableton.

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