No, I wasn't rock climbing in Yosemite! This gave me the opportunity to use Garageband which I'd never really tried before. Then I went on vacation and took my Macbook Air and Yamaha THR10C and Steinberger Guitar and TMB 30 short scale bass. Was really easy and did not result in any audio weirdness. One feature of Live which really helped me a lot was 'audio warping' where you can tweak the rhythm of what you were playing, e.g. I don't really like using the canned tracks very much simply because it's a bit too 'karaoke' - I do have my own ideas after all. I also found that tempo changes worked pretty well without audio artifacts. I'm just getting old and I give up pretty easily. It came together pretty well, although I never figured out how to use Arrangement view. I tried Ableton Live version 10 on a 30-day trial and used one of their sample tracks as the basis for an arrangement of a reggae tune I wrote 35 years ago. Many of those ideas wither and die before I ever press 'record'. That was a pretty big revelation as I'd been trying to find a way to use the computer to capture those spontaneous ideas and it is just too complicated. After some discussion here I realized, thanks to some insight from other members, that I should just continue to use my looper pedal for capturing ideas and work with the computer when doing the arrangement. The majority of Ableton's controller functions are triggered by a simple touch of a button, making it easy for beginners to get acquainted with the instrument and how to use controls.This is not going to be an extensive review/comparison, just my own recent experiences.Īwhile back I realized I wanted to get back into recording and had some consternation about using Cakewalk as I didn't find it conducive to what I was doing (trying to capture raw ideas). Its MIDI-over-USB controller feature is what differentiates it from other similar tools. It was designed to offer audio producers, sound designers and audio engineers a quick and easy way to bring dynamic changes and patterns to their audio via the waveform of sounds, resulting in a versatile 'palette' of sound that can easily be manipulated, providing the basis for much of the creativity in music today.Ībleton is able to handle a wide variety of musical styles thanks to its powerful synthesis engine and extensive library of sounds, instruments, and effects. One of the latest additions to standard set of features is the Wavetable plugin. A popular feature of Ableton is the MIDI plug-in, which allows users to record digital instruments or other audio from their computer into the microphone input of their mixer.

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