![]() I suggest you play with the demo for a while, which is a full featured Live without the capacity to save.FL Studio Vs Ableton Live, a long-lasting topic in the music industry. Hope that sheds some light on your reflexion, and again, that's only my word. It has some things that will be improved, it has some limitations, but first I've find out that working with limitations is more inspirationnal for me, and then I know Ableton team, which is quite small, is working the same way as we can dream of. I express myself this way cause I just love the software. Once again there are a few things that Live won't do and that could be crucial in your work. So, that all is my sole opinion and I'm not trying to sell you Live. I find Live's instruments and Fx a good quality. Live is the only app that allows me to first sketch ideas, a huge number of ideas if I want, and then "play" or "perform" my tune from those ideas, and record the result of that performance, as the basis of an arrangement, and then it lets me tweak that arrangement very precisely. well, I could developp on that but it's not the place. That's my opinion but seeing as Steinberg or Digidesign treat customers and their wishes. The great support and response of the developpers team. The easyness, and the very small space between any idea and its making: it is ridiculously easy to record something, drag any instrument, fx, or anything into live. maybe some other things that I can't think of right now. There is no integrated readability of audio level on the tracks nor on the master fader, but I for one can easily live with that, and it may come in the future. Still you can do some good audio editing but it requires news ways of thinking and working. Live isn't an "audio editor": you can cut, paste, whatever portion of an audio file on a track (in arrangement view), but there is no (not yet, as said by some Ableton founder) crossfade or fade capability for the audio parts. There is no (yet) built-in video capability, though you can find solutions as work-arounds with small apps as plugins or rewired to Live. There are some limitations to Live that you must be aware of: It doesn't mean I won't use Pro Tools or Cubase anymore, but not for music-making, at least not for my very personnal work. I've dreamed of actually "playing" music with a computer for years, and after years of struggling to do the best-tune-ever with Cubase or PT, I discovered Live and now decided to stick with it whatever. It feels like a toy, in the good sense of the word, or like a real instrument to emply a better word. If you're actually after making music, then go live. Only PT is a good workstation for precision audio editing and mixing maybe. PT simply cannot give me any inspirationnal feel or whatsoever. Now, to talk about workflow, pleasure of music making, ease of overall use, man-computer relationship, I really really much prefer Live. PT's waveform is best of all and can't be beaten. You won't find in Live the same easyness to edit audio, nor you'll have as much visual comfort and all. I love PT audio editing capabilities, and I think nothing comes close, not even Cubase SX which has been pushed to compete with PT (even shortcuts have been borrowed.). I'm a old-time Pro Tools user, LE and TDM, since version 3. Wow, that's a tough one, since the things you're asking are so personnal and not easily objectively talked about. I realize that asking on the Ableton site could lead to a certain bias but I don't have a problem with that. Is it as powerful?Īny help answering the above questions and opinions/advice is very much appreciated! I kind of just want to stick with one program and concentrate on that program to learn it to it's fullest. If I was to totally switch out of the Pro Tools end of things and only use Ableton for everything, would there be any disadvantage to this? What would I be missing? I realize that I do like the audio editing of Pro Tools and I haven't done enough of it with Live, yet. I have Spectrasonics Atmosphere for many of my keyboard parts and BFD for my drum parts as well as a PodXT for my direct guitar stuff. I already have a simple M-Audio firewire solo interface. I've recently borrowed a friends laptop that has Live 4 installed on it and quite frankly after playing with it and having lots of fun, I'm thinking that this program could be the end solution for me. I also dislike the whole iLok key thing with the M-powered version of the program. ![]() It's allowed me to have some fun but at the same time, I've become very frustrated with the reliability of the program. I've mostly just used the LE versions over the years and with that some simple multi track recording and editing, etc. I've been a basic Pro Tools user for some time.
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