I don't know maybe this is the wrong crowd but..

aguywhoplaysthief on 14/7/2010 at 07:50

Dig your Klezmer band Schechter!

Beauty-Man on 14/7/2010 at 11:50

Schechter

Definitely! Adobe was pretty good too. . Yo could get a fair quality out of Adobe. What I did like was the fact that you could mixdown to out formats. Which .wav is about the highest quality (via Ableton) but I did miss that feature.

I didn't enjoy the automation to much though.

Ableton is pretty quick to get used to. However, there is so much more that can be done in that program. I like the ability to freeze the tracks. Which I have a pretty hefty CPU, but it helps out a TON when I have a lot of plugin heavy tracks.

I haven't really used much of the session view. I do a lot of MIDI work straight in the arrangement selection. I grew to love it because of the flexibility.

What I did miss was FL Studio which gave me ease in creating drum patterns.

It's a bit more to it in Ableton. . (at least to me)

Never touched Garageband, but a lot of these programs I can learn in a heartbeat.

I still drift back and forth to Ableton, Adobe, Cubase, etc..

The technical stuff is the best part haha!

Thanks Harvester I appreciate it!

Schechter on 16/7/2010 at 03:22

AGWPT: Thank you! After several years of trying to work with various people, and putting myself in different roles on different instruments, things have finally crystallized into something that works. We know what we want, and we have other people who *get* it, and are excited about what we're making together. This is something that's just come together about a month ago, so this is a very exciting time for us. Hopefully now that I've found gainful employment we can afford to record an actual demo sometime soon.

Beauty-Man: Yeah, you're a different breed of animal. I like Live foremost because recording into it, whether audio or MIDI, couldn't possibly be simpler, and second because it is so flexible. But for the technical end, I tend to either miss the forest for the trees, or the other way around - either the details completely envelop my brain or else I become oblivious to them - balancing both points of view totally does not work for me, and it's really a matter best left in the hands of wonderful, odd people such as yourself.

frozenman on 16/7/2010 at 11:26

Session mode is the serious draw of Live in my opinion because it allows you to shape musical ideas in non-linear ways. Might not be so useful if you're working with arranged music, but really tight if you're gonna take drugs or go to a party.