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  • Ableton as a serious DAW?

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    Hi

    Any of you using or any experience of using Ableton Live 5 as a serious DAW for VSL? Will 6 bring any more advantageous - the quicktime import would be key to me personally. Also what's it like for MIDI editing?

    The reason I ask is as a current SX3 user and with no universal binary in sight I want something that will take advantage of my shiny MacPro (when it arrives of course) on OSX rather than XP. Looking at Logic but I'm not a fan so far. Live looks better and feels more intuitive.

    Any thoughts?

    TIA

    Tim
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    @timkiel said:

    Hi

    Any of you using or any experience of using Ableton Live 5 as a serious DAW for VSL? Will 6 bring any more advantageous - the quicktime import would be key to me personally. Also what's it like for MIDI editing?

    The reason I ask is as a current SX3 user and with no universal binary in sight I want something that will take advantage of my shiny MacPro (when it arrives of course) on OSX rather than XP. Looking at Logic but I'm not a fan so far. Live looks better and feels more intuitive.

    Any thoughts?

    TIA

    Tim



    Tim,
    SX3 is avaiiable for mac is it not?
    And with the pending release of SX4 soon, surely you'll get a version that suits your shiny new mac?
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    SX3 is not UB though. And whilst SX4 is supposedly due out sometime this year I'm not holding my breath - although I may have to.

    So in the interim I'm stuck with SX3 under Rosetta or SX3 in WinXP under bootcamp.
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    Live is great at what it does, but unless your writing is very symmetrical, I wouldn't recommend it as a substitute for a sequencer if you're doing orchestral writing. It's designed for throwing together patterns quickly and manipulating them in different combinations.

    On the other hand, I read in an interview with Hans Zimmer that he wished its format was the delivery format for films, since it lets you stretch things while keeping them in tempo - it's very fluid.

    But that would be a very different way of working from what you're used to in Cubase.
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    Thanks for the feedback so far guys. Live 6 looks pretty nice - I might try out the demo first though. I just hope Steinberg get the act together and get SX4 out soon.

    I'm pretty p*d at them at the moment as all my other VSTi - Hypersonic2, VG2 and VB are not going to be made into UBs until they get updated with the next payable upgrade- which is a bit of a money spinner for Steiny. Hence the possible jump ship to something else...

    Tim
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    I have live 5, although I do most of my composing in Logic. I would like to migrate to Live exclusively.. but I find myself mixing mostly in Logic after I have rendered clips form Live.

    Live is a very INSPIRATIONAL tool in a way.. especially if you do music that is not as fluid and uses beats/ percussion. I consider it revolutionary, as there is nothign out there that is quite like it. No two people use it the same.

    I recommend the video tutorials and demos.


    Hey look.. it's my first post! And it's not a question!


    Steve