The preset changes you make on your drum machines, keyboard, etc., can be automated. You can also you can boost your performance by playing backing tracks. Yes, Live can do that but it’s not the focus of the workflow. As a DJ who uses Ableton, you can custom arrange your song on stage. There is no changing the arrangement on the fly or any of that nonsense. It’s repetitive but linear and we only ever rehearse and perform the song one way. Live suits dance music and the way that’s presented, where what I do is what a rock band does. I think it works better for me because of what I want to do with it. I still don’t think there is any way to do something as simple as play from the first bar and the GUI seems very inflexible, which means I am going to have to change my workflow drastically to work with it. Over the years I’ve often thought that if I couldn’t use Orion any more, I’d probably end up back with a hardware sequencer but they seem to have gone off in a different direction, too.Ĭubase seems to have come a long way since those days, as have I, but there are still frustrating things. I ended up with Orion because it felt more like the way I was used to working in a real studio environment. (Image credit: Future) Jump to: Joachim Pastor. In celebration of Ableton's 20th birthday, we spoke with a collection of artists to find out how the DAW figures in their creative process. Luckily I had a really good relationship with the shop where I bought it and they let me return it after a month. 13 artists on how they use Ableton Live: Use it as a real instrument. It seemed like the least musical way of working every. When I first decided to start using my computer to replace my giant workstation synth (a fully loaded Korg Trinity at the time), I bought Cubase VST 3.5 and I absolutely hated it.

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