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ableton has been my daw of choice.

  • Amps replied to this.

    Amps Also, delighted to see Jay in his Bayern gear, an unexpected bonus this saturday morning!

    Gotta represent my team fella! They’re tearing it up as of late.

      Amps Hands up who is using Ableton?

      Largely all Ableton now although I would still consider myself a Cubase user as well. Quite frankly I’d do much more in Cubase if it weren’t such a CPU hog on my seven year old computer. 🙁

        Pretty much exclusively Ableton. I’ve been using it so long it’s second nature now. I started on Cubase though but found Ableton just so much more intuitive when I switched over (which if I remember was version 4!). I have an old version of reason but never really invested the time to learn the sequencer - it’s something I’ve meant to do and as I’ve said above I’m planning to upgrade as it can now be used as a plugin. Am waiting for black Friday…

        I should add that I’ve been using Ableton to mostly DJ with since about version 5, until the last five or so years where I’ve increasingly been producing in it as well. I still get better mixdowns out of Cubase though - which I’ve used since 1994.

          303abuser

          303abuser why cubase over ableton for mixing? just a familiarity thing or workflow?

          I get better results. My mixdowns sound better. Low end sounds tighter. I don’t know why exactly it is, but I’m not the only one who has this issue with Ableton. Apparently people have done audio engine comparisons and it’s supposedly the same as other DAWs in terms of quality, but I’m not entirely convinced.

          That said, in terms of ease of creativity nothing comes close to Ableton that I’ve encountered. The audio and routing capabilities are pretty phenomenal.

                loopdokter fair enough. i’ll be sticking with ableton as there’s no way i’m learning another daw, but it’s good to know the differences.

                  303abuser …watched a bit of Tom Cosm’s stream on this earlier, that thing where it auto-cuts between linked tracks is wild

                      Unbroken1 yeah there are a few things i’m looking forward to. lanes for different takes is a great idea and i love all of the random functions, especially probabilities for velocity/pressure/etc. the suite upgrade is a bit cheaper than last time too.

                        …yeah, lanes, that’s it. Fucking annoying you have to turn off automation view to see them, I’ll never remember that in a million years!

                        What was that function where it cut between the different lanes based on a user set pattern? sounded mad

                          Unbroken1 i’ll have to look again, but it has something to do with that link function i think or maybe the new “jump” follow action?

                            Got an email from Ableton offering 20% early bird which I will go for.

                            30 minute overview of the new features with Petrichor here:

                            Looks really good. Can use MPE with Push 2 which is a bonus. Hybrid Reverb and scale option for clips also big pluses that I can see myself using a fair bit.

                            Also got an early bird invite for the upgrade with 20% which is a no brainer. 😀

                              Henry Also got an early bird invite for the upgrade with 20% which is a no brainer.

                              is that 20% off upgrading 9 to 10, with a free upgrade to 11 OR 20% off upgrading 10 to 11?