Digital Audio Workstations
i was looking at a variety of cakewalk products, including sonar home studio, dimension pro, project 5 and rapture and i can't tell what is really needed for good music production, and what is redundant. please give me some help based on your own experience.
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over the years i've looked at virtually every piece of studio/recording software there is, including the loop stuff stuch as rebirth and fruity loops, and i have never run across something so intuitive and easy to use as ableton.
my opinion, but i think it's worth checking out if you're looking.
one of the reasons i really like ableton is that they are not trying to emulate a physical studio which is what most software tries to do, going as far as even making it look like a big mixing board.
instead, ableton has taken the powers of the computer and designed a new way of looking at studio software. utilizing other dimensions in how things are organized. i can't explain it that well, but i sure enjoy the software.
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by Scot Ranney on 07/31/2007, 10:52
but it's worth remembering that, for most people and most applications, the full power of these programs is probably never exploited. i certainly suspect i stopped getting to the limits back in cakewalk home studio days.
sid
does anybody else have experience with a midi-to-usb cable for midi computer input?
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by Scot Ranney on 08/01/2007, 07:43
i use logic as a daw for recording, but use rax (these are mac-specific programs) for live performance.
ableton has a free demo download available.
what sort of music are you producing with ableton live? do you have any samples online?
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by Scot Ranney on 08/02/2007, 11:19
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