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Re: Get started making music

#43

Related, this is trending on reddit this morning. Just fascinating to watch someone build a catchy track up on such a (apparently) basic piece of equipment... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK5cU9qWRg0

What's especially impressive is that the OP-1 has only four tracks, and only does destructive recording with no undo. Meaning that if you want more than four instruments, you have to overdub the same track, and any mistake will ruin the current loop.

In other words, you really need to know what you're doing and have a really good idea of what you want to play to be able to make a song as elaborate as this.

Re: Get started making music

#44

Ableton Live is my main daw. I use it every day, generally for hours, and for a wide variety of purposes. The most depressing thing about ableton is made obvious in two seconds of messing with that tutorial. A complete disregard for music in the sense of pushing boundaries of time, or doing things that are not tied to any sort of grid, and the sense of music as an emotive form. So many aspects of music are very annoy…

Music is made in your head, the DAW is just a tool to get it out. You can turn off grid snapping and use samples the way you like and many more creative methods to do whatever you please.

> So many aspects of music are very annoying or borderline impossible to do in ableton.

Like what? Scoring music? How about using a proper tool then? Nobody complains that they can't write hardware drivers in PHP.

My DAW is Reason and because it sucks in making mixtapes I got Ableton too because it's superior in that use case.

Re: Get started making music

#45
post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What DAW you would recommend? And what features do Ableton miss?

Reaper is incredibly full-featured and free/cheap.

Reaper is optimized for live music, and, although it can do electronic music decently, its workflow is not tailored for it.

Re: Get started making music

#47

As someone who has no musical talent whatsoever, I'm oddly intrigued by Ableton's products. I've occasionally stumbled across the Push[0] and been fascinated by it as an input device. This site is another thing to add to my Intriguing Stuff list. [0] https://www.ableton.com/en/push/

I have a Push (v1) and it's a lot of fun. The whole idea is to pull out the functionality from Ableton onto a tactile device, and I think it succeeds in doing so. When I play with it, I stash my laptop to the side beecause you don't really need to stay glued to the screen while working with it.

Beyond its utility, it's a really beautiful device.

Re: Get started making music

#49
post #40

A more appropriate title would be: Get started triggering samples. Making music is really something different IMO.

I'm not an artistic musician, but it feels really satisfying to make something that is my own, even if musically it's really simple. Your comment is nothing but unnecessarily elitist.
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