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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?

                          303abuser I’m going from 10 so not sure version 9 owners. The email link just took me to my account so presumably Ableton are targeting 10 users?

                              Henry ah i see, i logged in and it shows the discount there. i was under the impression the discount was for people upgrading from 9.

                              Unbroken1 in CAD, my upgrade is $290, $230 after the discount.

                                    …fuck, that’s quite a lot, only upgraded to 10 last December 🙁

                                    The update from 9 to 10 took years so agreed this is a bit of a pisser having this come so soon.
                                    Bit disappointed about not getting a new synth too. The Poli synth has been around for ages and looks a bit shit. I do wonder whether this will be a regular thing now with more regular releases.

                                    Having said all that the updates I mentioned earlier plus the additional packs that will surely follow will make it worth it.

                                    it’s definitely early and i appreciate that they dropped the upgrade price, but this seems like a 10.5 version rather than 11.0.

                                    Comping and scales overlay on the piano roll I’d definitely use - which are time savers more than anything. I already have beatseaker so it’s a bit annoying that it’s going to be an integrated feature. I’m not sure how linked editing would be helpful. Extra macro’s is fine. Easy on additional packs / effects etc. Biggest issue for me though is that my music computer runs Windows 7 and this will be Windows 10 only. I don’t really want to reconstitute it again, having survived the harddrive crash from last year.