Re: [LAU] Fwd: What Live is about (was: Re: ableton live in vmware)

From: Brent Busby <brent@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 01 2009 - 20:08:02 EEST

On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Brett McCoy wrote:

> That's precisely my point I was saying earlier. :-) If I were doing
> more loop-based music, I'd be all over something like Live (or some
> Linux approximation), but I am doing progressive heavy metal and
> orchestral/symphonic music, so Live (or some Linux approximation)
> would not work so well doing that. Not saying that kind of music
> *can't* be done using something like Live, it's just not really suited
> for it (at least going by what I read on the website), whereas
> traditional DAW & sequencer apps work very well for that.

That's one reason that I like that in Ardour, you can make the timeline
rulers for bars/beats/etc. invisible. A lot of the music I record has
time that is not generated by a machine, and the DAW is not syncing to
anything. A beat timeline is useless for projects like that.

-- 
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+ UNIX Systems Admin	 +  banging on a million typewriters will
+ University of Chicago	 +  eventually reproduce the entire works of
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+ James Franck Institute +  we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky
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