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  • vibesvibes

    Ableton Live 5Published on 09/01/05 at 01:05
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    Installed without problem on my laptop Medion 2.4 Ghz 512 MB RAM.
    No incompatibilities with MIDIOX, SonicStage, my editors for synthesizers and hard drivers for my sound card indigo I / O and MIDISPORT8X8. I have nothing else in my bike apart an army of free samples mugs on the net ...

    I purchased the download version, no need for manual since I made an upgrade of Live4, I just read the new specs.

    I had CubaseVST5 and CubaseSX's on my pc to try my hand a computer music, but I have not hung programs. It's been only been a year I use Live and I delight to do the zic pc ...

    9 / 10 because Live5 will be much worse than Live6 ... Gave me and ca cum notes as you can not even imagine ..…
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    Installed without problem on my laptop Medion 2.4 Ghz 512 MB RAM.
    No incompatibilities with MIDIOX, SonicStage, my editors for synthesizers and hard drivers for my sound card indigo I / O and MIDISPORT8X8. I have nothing else in my bike apart an army of free samples mugs on the net ...

    I purchased the download version, no need for manual since I made an upgrade of Live4, I just read the new specs.

    I had CubaseVST5 and CubaseSX's on my pc to try my hand a computer music, but I have not hung programs. It's been only been a year I use Live and I delight to do the zic pc ...

    9 / 10 because Live5 will be much worse than Live6 ... Gave me and ca cum notes as you can not even imagine ...

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Click click ... this right click ... too good ...

    I love the warp function that automatically hold the loops to the tempo, it is a sick trick that works really well with the style that I compose (electronic zik square well). Before I did not use loops, now I can use the stuff I recorded There's super long and incorporate them into my new.

    In addition it works also with the mp3, if I downloaded it as much because of Live5, swear it's true ...

    I have a lot of hard stuff (MC505, MicroKorg, Elektron's, QM309, Polymorph, 16QAM / 3, MS404, full of effects racks ...) and everything can be synchronized thanks Live5 and 5 Live can be remotely by all synths. So I am very MIDI and now I no longer need the soft MIDIOX all my machines for linking them through the PC. Great happiness that was not also with Live4, MIDI sync and all of these machines is Live5 no delays and lags, I MIDISPORT8X8 interface.

    I like the files are stored in Live5 I had at least two gigabordels Live4 in my HD.

    I feel that the audio engine is much better on Live5, and I speak only of the processing performed by WARP mode.

    I think I'll be able to get into mastering my tracks, the effects are also very friendly and easy to use.

    I do not use VST then freeze function and all the widgets CPU eaters do not concern me, but it seems that there has been the big change with Live5 ...

    9 / 10 because Ableton failed to create the ultimate software alone knows your eyes and play the right tempo warp music you got in your big head artist ...

    OVERALL OPINION

    The concept is always the Live4 present in this new version but has been (tresbeaucoup) improve, it is more productive and paradoxically easier to use because many shortcomings of the previous version have disappeared.

    We can say that the designers have cemented the previous version of Live which still had many needs, y'avait a side that was sorely lacking in pro Live4.

    We can say that the transition was difficult Live4 tracker in the sequencer, and that is the Live5 sequencer Ableton pro.

    I'm not working for Ableton and I still prefer to create on harware, but if y'avait Live5 on Audiofanzine There's been five years, my home studio would be a great Giant screen with controllers everywhere ... 9 / 10 because I was not able Ableton help but ruin stuff in hardware ... but what is he doing all these years ... nan, but sometimes I swear ...
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  • Anonymous

    Ableton Live 5Published on 09/02/05 at 22:53
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    Tlcharger fast via adsl with no problem.
    any incompatibility with my stuff.
    Full manuals in French trs.

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Motherboard ASUS A7V8X-X, AMD Sempron 3000 + (2GHz), 1ghz ram, two hard drives (internal + external), audio interface m-audio audiophile usb.
    the software works perfectly.
    5 live trs has great performances and enough to play in the big leagues.

    OVERALL OPINION

    A little over a month of use and beucoup pieces in the works.
    The +: ergonomics, warp mode, the ease of use, quickly to the Ides of music, sound effects and midi provided, it is visually beautiful trs!
    the -: nothing.
    quality price ratio more than interesting: I bought the …
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    Tlcharger fast via adsl with no problem.
    any incompatibility with my stuff.
    Full manuals in French trs.

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Motherboard ASUS A7V8X-X, AMD Sempron 3000 + (2GHz), 1ghz ram, two hard drives (internal + external), audio interface m-audio audiophile usb.
    the software works perfectly.
    5 live trs has great performances and enough to play in the big leagues.

    OVERALL OPINION

    A little over a month of use and beucoup pieces in the works.
    The +: ergonomics, warp mode, the ease of use, quickly to the Ides of music, sound effects and midi provided, it is visually beautiful trs!
    the -: nothing.
    quality price ratio more than interesting: I bought the last day of the opration launch live 5 + operator (virtual synth) for 338 euros!
    strong version 6!
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  • le-bloble-blob

    Ableton Live 5Published on 11/03/05 at 10:17
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    Perfect

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Laptop PIV 2.4 ghz 512ram hdd 7200t/mn
    Nickel turns with lots of tracks and effects.
    I use it live, it does not budge.
    However, some problems of recognition for live sets created under 4.
    I also realized with demos that will be online soon.

    OVERALL OPINION

    I want to add my voice to this chorus of praise to thank Ableton. I m'exploque.
    Piano teacher in music school I wanted to live in aquérir license education as possible in Germany for example. Well in France niet! I contacted Ableton and it was gone (50%-cheap though). When sending planted and they sent me the version angnlaise. They then sent me the manual in French + goodies…
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    Perfect

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Laptop PIV 2.4 ghz 512ram hdd 7200t/mn
    Nickel turns with lots of tracks and effects.
    I use it live, it does not budge.
    However, some problems of recognition for live sets created under 4.
    I also realized with demos that will be online soon.

    OVERALL OPINION

    I want to add my voice to this chorus of praise to thank Ableton. I m'exploque.
    Piano teacher in music school I wanted to live in aquérir license education as possible in Germany for example. Well in France niet! I contacted Ableton and it was gone (50%-cheap though). When sending planted and they sent me the version angnlaise. They then sent me the manual in French + goodies ... Sympa.
    Since I am in regular contact with them and I can say it's a box with a great mentality is not like ...
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  • chasiscgcchasiscgc

    Ableton Live 5Published on 01/07/06 at 05:15
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    True genius is my life saving in some way I have to spend whole evenings to find an app that allowed me to launch sound effects and impact from the key on the keyboard avai I need to play a théatreet I came across the demo and I have ended up buying it I could not résister.Il remains for me that to exploit the remaining 90% of soft lol.

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    He knew perfectly adapted to the use of which I need to avai therefore remains to be seen in the theater for the next show so young it will overcome the

    OVERALL OPINION

    Really a bomb and a wide operating environment can demonstrate my témoignage.J 'm very happy with my investment and thanks to him the technique o…
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    True genius is my life saving in some way I have to spend whole evenings to find an app that allowed me to launch sound effects and impact from the key on the keyboard avai I need to play a théatreet I came across the demo and I have ended up buying it I could not résister.Il remains for me that to exploit the remaining 90% of soft lol.

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    He knew perfectly adapted to the use of which I need to avai therefore remains to be seen in the theater for the next show so young it will overcome the

    OVERALL OPINION

    Really a bomb and a wide operating environment can demonstrate my témoignage.J 'm very happy with my investment and thanks to him the technique of the theater was congratulated by the theatrical group that wasn' not happened for 20 years.
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  • SkaRyToySkaRyToy

    Ableton Live 5Published on 02/14/06 at 04:25
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    > Installation nickel: selection of plug-in directories and so on. 15 min and for Life!

    > No incompatibility with my setup: soundcard recognized MIDI devices as well.

    > The choice of latency and global options and simple, the (h ² 0) activation is carefree with the key provided by Ableton. ° °

    > I have not read the manual, but I took an afternoon to all the lessons offered, which allowed me to immediately understand the logic of the log: + + boring, but useful

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    SETUP:
    MSI 270 Laptop
    Proc 1.8 Ghz
    1024 RAM
    HDD 80 GB 7200T / m
    Sound Card Motherboard = (ASIO not supported!)

    Good stability (some cracking when too many plug-ins running Ablet…
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    > Installation nickel: selection of plug-in directories and so on. 15 min and for Life!

    > No incompatibility with my setup: soundcard recognized MIDI devices as well.

    > The choice of latency and global options and simple, the (h ² 0) activation is carefree with the key provided by Ableton. ° °

    > I have not read the manual, but I took an afternoon to all the lessons offered, which allowed me to immediately understand the logic of the log: + + boring, but useful

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    SETUP:
    MSI 270 Laptop
    Proc 1.8 Ghz
    1024 RAM
    HDD 80 GB 7200T / m
    Sound Card Motherboard = (ASIO not supported!)

    Good stability (some cracking when too many plug-ins running Ableton but intelligently manages the situation through a temporary file retrieval)

    6 lines with well-laden MIDI VST (ie 6 lines Kontakt II) it turns to the limit;)

    > Operation proportional to the config: more RAM you got, the less it oar;)

    OVERALL OPINION

    > I use it for 3 months now and it's really a very good log

    > The interface is clear, I like the management as a result of effects added to a track like this at least we understand routing.

    > I tried to start Reason and Cubase and Sonar and Fruity Loops and Ableton log I found that I like:
    it is clear, do you know where to play on a particular point (which is in Cubase to enlightenment), and it rocks creativity;]

    > I highly recommend THIS LOG FOR BEGINNERS.
    Thanks to him, I understood almost everything in the process of composing a song, How does the South, the programming of the pots to control the VSTi, mastering, in short I understood the whole of the critical points in the composition of modern .

    And now, I gently put to Logic and Cubase and I finally understand routing, bus, and how to adapt these "big" log in my own way of dealing: it is essential I think.
    But we must admit that the clarity of the Ableton Live interface greatly benefit from his concurrents.Bref is the log that opens up everything else sequencers masters. Huge for the training and understanding of computer music.
    > For me it is the sequencer of the future. Not too CPU-intensive, excellent management VSTi (RAM control screen CHANNELS associated with the plug-in on which one can make MIDI mapping, it greatly facilitates automation, which is accessible from a simple click), good sound reproduction when exporting.
    > As for the live, I do not use this feature ... but my method of composition is very intuitive, is that why Live sûrment suits me very well in my creative process.

    > That it's all good must go, and strongly on 6, with a mapping can be full VSTi (but that also depends on good VSTi then it's a little mess) to avoid the complicated programming of the CC, mastering presets pro, but it's really good on the voice!
    Keep Living!
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  • jeff5392jeff5392

    Ableton Live 5Published on 09/08/06 at 13:09
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    No problem for installation, use of resources can
    No problems of compatibility
    Clear and comprehensive manual

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Athlon XP 2400 + 1GB RAM Sound card Terratec Phase 22
    No problem with this configuration

    OVERALL OPINION

    3 months
    Only FL Studio
    It's an exellent software computer music very powerful, I highly recommend
    Yes I would do this choice.

    I noticed that there were no French-speaking community around LIVE but I found a forum that remains to be tapped: http://abletonliveforum.free.fr
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    No problem for installation, use of resources can
    No problems of compatibility
    Clear and comprehensive manual

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Athlon XP 2400 + 1GB RAM Sound card Terratec Phase 22
    No problem with this configuration

    OVERALL OPINION

    3 months
    Only FL Studio
    It's an exellent software computer music very powerful, I highly recommend
    Yes I would do this choice.

    I noticed that there were no French-speaking community around LIVE but I found a forum that remains to be tapped: http://abletonliveforum.free.fr
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  • malnoirmalnoir

    Ableton Live 5Published on 09/14/06 at 09:09
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    Problem-free installation
    no incomaptibilitbr /> Config general super easy
    Manual clear and sufficient

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    3500 + SB Audigy 2s 1024 corsair ram asus motherboard a8nx
    Software works great, except a few crashes but head tjs way the work is saved.
    the perf is great
    Config super stable

    OVERALL OPINION

    1 week
    The overwhelming simplicity of use
    I tried cakewalk, incaptable ...
    If we think to recoup the money you need to buy a very complicated program ben not buy live 5.
    Yes without hesitation
  • Anonymous

    Ableton Live 5Published on 09/27/06 at 05:57
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    The software installs all alone, and used all alone ... not even need to go in the manual, everything is very intuitive. Obviously, not of incompatibility ... yet my sound card is very temperamental

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    I shoot with an old pc dj 7 years (a miracle he is still alive!) Equipped with an Intel Celeron 2gig of ram for 1024, and a sound card rme digi 96 / 8 pad. the software works perfectly, and is particularly stable.

    OVERALL OPINION

    I use it for about one month, only for ... live.
    the highlight is really the cot practice. It's absolutely all on hand, and fitting a MIDI controller (in my case a little evolution uc-33e) is the ultimate weapon.

    I turn…
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    The software installs all alone, and used all alone ... not even need to go in the manual, everything is very intuitive. Obviously, not of incompatibility ... yet my sound card is very temperamental

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    I shoot with an old pc dj 7 years (a miracle he is still alive!) Equipped with an Intel Celeron 2gig of ram for 1024, and a sound card rme digi 96 / 8 pad. the software works perfectly, and is particularly stable.

    OVERALL OPINION

    I use it for about one month, only for ... live.
    the highlight is really the cot practice. It's absolutely all on hand, and fitting a MIDI controller (in my case a little evolution uc-33e) is the ultimate weapon.

    I turned on Live with Logic Audio, and with reason (!) recently with an MPC4000, but the ca's it, I finally found THE tool for live.

    considering the price of a configuration console / effects box / sequencer, it can be said that the report qualitprix is ​​really not bad!

    I would do this choice, and even a priori report the purchase of other equipment
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  • Flo60600Flo60600

    Ableton Live 5Published on 05/10/08 at 10:35
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    Ableton trademark, everything falls under the fingers: installation without problem, Windows Vista compatible, easy configuration, the manual is helpful to understand the philosophy of soft, APRS half an hour can be throw it out the window.

    May be a problem when running with ASIO, ASIO4ALL notte, due to a config file by GNR Live, which might mute out the sound card. APRS research and deleting the config file, the problem is rsolu.

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Win XP, 1 GB RAM are enough to turn the soft comfort
    In Vista, this same com Giga RAM ds suffer when they balance very heavy and VST effects in all directions.

    Basically good performance does not ncssitant configuration n…
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    Ableton trademark, everything falls under the fingers: installation without problem, Windows Vista compatible, easy configuration, the manual is helpful to understand the philosophy of soft, APRS half an hour can be throw it out the window.

    May be a problem when running with ASIO, ASIO4ALL notte, due to a config file by GNR Live, which might mute out the sound card. APRS research and deleting the config file, the problem is rsolu.

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Win XP, 1 GB RAM are enough to turn the soft comfort
    In Vista, this same com Giga RAM ds suffer when they balance very heavy and VST effects in all directions.

    Basically good performance does not ncssitant configuration nag

    Some findings on certain incompatibility VST causing runtime errors

    OVERALL OPINION

    I use it for a year and I recorded my first album. It allows the nophyte to fully enter the world of squenceur about the results and obtain enough pro aisment.

    Not having had the opportunity to test the functionality of live performance, I am not advocating the use of guides or DJ concert nanmoins Obviously this is more of a non-n negligible.

    Quality price ratio trs correct, given its resources, in comparison with other soft the market.

    I would do 1000 times the choice.
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  • FP UserFP User

    Ableton Live 5Published on 10/31/08 at 16:00
    This program has already transformed my work. Tape is really brilliant for rehearsed bands, but Live is the way to go for composing. I have a Nord Lead 2 but still ended up buying Operator - great sounds, especially with the new midi effects like Arpegiator. Simpler has cool sounds, as does Impulse, plus the effects are a blast to work with. I can't say anything is really missing when I now have so much to work with. Also, I did own an MPC1000 for a brief time, and it was like doing your taxes with a calculator watch compared to working with samples in Live. Warping is absolutley awesome, as is the whole clip editor.

    Price paid

    $399 USD

    The reason I bought Live was many reviews lauded th…
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    This program has already transformed my work. Tape is really brilliant for rehearsed bands, but Live is the way to go for composing. I have a Nord Lead 2 but still ended up buying Operator - great sounds, especially with the new midi effects like Arpegiator. Simpler has cool sounds, as does Impulse, plus the effects are a blast to work with. I can't say anything is really missing when I now have so much to work with. Also, I did own an MPC1000 for a brief time, and it was like doing your taxes with a calculator watch compared to working with samples in Live. Warping is absolutley awesome, as is the whole clip editor.

    Price paid

    $399 USD

    The reason I bought Live was many reviews lauded the interface as user friendly and intuitive and the program itself easy to learn. I was not dissapointed and kudos to Abelton for a very well composed user manual. Also: brilliant idea by Ableton was to allow download of the full version for demo (just can't save anything). Second was the fact that it works on Macs and PC's. So, I learned the program on my PC on lunch at work, then, when the decision was made to buy, I could immediately start working. Brilliant. Also, my brother in law jazz drummer can get Live for his PC and we can work seamlessly through mail with .als file extensions. Brilliant squared.

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    I am fresh off the boat from analog, and the proverbial fog has lifted. I was working with a Tascam 488 8 track tape studio, mostly through headphones. I also colaborated with a guy who has a 24 track 2" studio, which was great but very time consuming and hard to manage. For instance, reversing tape direction for efects like pre-verb is cool, maybe we felt like the Beatles or something, but time consuming and may be unusable. It's funny, Trent Reznor talks about all the hassle he went through to do what Live does in a half minute - it's somewhat sad but he's glad he went through the experience. I think the sound quality will be better simply because I won't be "experiencing" every single cable that needs pluged in to add some delay to this track, or a bass line that has to be played for all five minutes instead of being able to loop it and focus on the song itself.

    It seems very well built - the navigating section is very intuitive, the layout of tracks and sections for adding effects, the slip view and clip editing, all very intuitive. I actually did have a problem with instalation, where I had to download the entire program on a dial up connection. The version that shipped on the disk did not contain a fix for OSX Tiger. I was grumpy about that, but quickly forgave them for their lightening fast response and subsequent opening of the program and the obvious myriad solutions for my prior recording woes.

    OVERALL OPINION

    I read a lot about other programs, but have no experience with any other DAW or software package for recording. Going digital was based solely on playing instruments rather than playing with equipment, and harness some of the fantastic technology to improve my finsihed product. AND not cost a ridiculous price. My situation is obviously what cumputer based packages like Live are marketed towards, so,in hindsight, if I had picked Cubase or Sonar I might be just as enamored with their programs. Live just appealed to me in that it was created by musicians and was described as revolutionary - good vibe for a complete studio overhaul.

    Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
    Posted by: Hybrid (January 2-, 2005)
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  • FP UserFP User

    Ableton Live 5Published on 10/31/08 at 16:00
    Excellent features, clip warping, sample editing, built in vst's and vsti's respectable. Everything that protoolslogic has just alot more musical. (quickneasy) Rewire is the bomb this program uses very little cpu so you can rewire multiple programs with no problems generally. Grouping tracks function would be good, maybe quicktime options for film would be sweet!

    Price paid

    280 Aus

    excellent tutorials, great layout. I really like the simple no glitter gui, in my opinion the best interface out there!

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Its got its own sound which I like, but its so subtle that it may be my imagination...

    once i had a problem with an asio driver but theyve fixed it.

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    Excellent features, clip warping, sample editing, built in vst's and vsti's respectable. Everything that protoolslogic has just alot more musical. (quickneasy) Rewire is the bomb this program uses very little cpu so you can rewire multiple programs with no problems generally. Grouping tracks function would be good, maybe quicktime options for film would be sweet!

    Price paid

    280 Aus

    excellent tutorials, great layout. I really like the simple no glitter gui, in my opinion the best interface out there!

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Its got its own sound which I like, but its so subtle that it may be my imagination...

    once i had a problem with an asio driver but theyve fixed it.

    OVERALL OPINION

    Im running pro tools but i always seem to boot up ableton, for arranging and pre mixing its the bomb all the automation you could want the list goes on. I would generally master in protools but thats just for the realtime bounce options, and proven algorithims. If your writing music especially hip hop and electronic or playing live this is up there, make sure you get your hands on some good plugins...

    Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
    Posted by: Rajasik ( 2-, 2006)
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  • FP UserFP User

    Ableton Live 5Published on 10/31/08 at 16:00
    Likely targeted as an intuitive sequencing instrument, Ableton does a great job of including many elements of standard DAW's into it's workspace. You get a fairly standard set of plugins. Delays, EQ's as well as Ableton's Operator synth and a new BeatRepeat tool all clad in Abletons skin color. I haven't used these much as I mainly use my own plugins in VST and VSTi format. There is an intuitive browser on the left hand side of the workspace that allows for organization of your projects, plugins, loops etc. It can be collapsed to expand your workspace. You get a fairly standard set of loops aimed towards the more hip hoppy/technoish/house side of things which I'm sure many will find useful.…
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    Likely targeted as an intuitive sequencing instrument, Ableton does a great job of including many elements of standard DAW's into it's workspace. You get a fairly standard set of plugins. Delays, EQ's as well as Ableton's Operator synth and a new BeatRepeat tool all clad in Abletons skin color. I haven't used these much as I mainly use my own plugins in VST and VSTi format. There is an intuitive browser on the left hand side of the workspace that allows for organization of your projects, plugins, loops etc. It can be collapsed to expand your workspace. You get a fairly standard set of loops aimed towards the more hip hoppy/technoish/house side of things which I'm sure many will find useful. An excellent feature practically exclusive of Ableton's is its time stretching ability. You can easily drag a loop or recording into the session or clip view, trigger it and conform it to the current sessions tempo. The stretching algorithm is quite unique in that it allows you to choose a processing method to deliver the best sounding stretch. You can choose from beat, texture, tone, or complex modes. I find that most percussive loops sound best using the beat setting. and tone and complex modes work best with richer recordings or whole audio clips. Keep in mind that selecting complex will be more intensive on the cpu. Sound quality is great with the re-synced loops and recordings. On the right is an awesome tutorial browser allowing for quick and easy access to tutorials that can be read as you operate the software. It can be also collapsible to expand the workspace view. Ableton does a great job of making the tutorials thorough yet simple, another point that contributes to it's quick learning curve. You even get a little box on the lower left hand side that displays information on every aspect of ableton's mechanics as youplace your mouse cursor over it. For example, if you have no idea what "that little knob" does, simply place your cursor over it and Ableton tells you exactly what it does and how to do it. Something ableton lacks is a better method of organizing comps in the audio recording view. I personally would have liked to see some form of playlist system for managing takes since Ableton really is able to give you a thorough project oriented music production experience.

    Price paid

    281.00 USD (Ebay)

    Extremely easy to use. Abletons workflow is highly streamlined. You have a unique clip session view where you can simply drag and drop premade or recorded loops into various arrangements and trigger or record them similtaneously or individually in real time. I find this intuitive system especially handy for creating loop based melodic segments (chorus, bridges, etc..) quickly and efficiently. You can record on the fly manually using raw data (line inputs) or midi data (vsti's, hardware modules etc). By the way, Abletons midi handling is simple and powerful. Routing is very flexible via midi channels and can handle just about anything from choosing hardware modules as source from the dropdown menus to running intensive vsti modules such as korg legacy cell which you simply drag and drop from the file browser to the midi strip. Every control aspect of ableton within the workspace is fully automatable and can be programmed to an external controller or the computer keyboard via a simple to use keymap feature. You can draw in automation within the session view. I drew a sine wave pattern onto a level automation and watched the faders on my mixer glide in unison.. fairly entertaining. Using Abletons track recording view, you can record easily and edit it all using the classic cut and paste, region seperation, conforming, slicing methods etc.. Ableton has straight forward and flexible quantizing features which I find to be adequate and fairly precise even with abusive cutting and pasting. This works especially well with midi track recordings. A great thing about ableton is it seems to have some kind of noise reduction algorithm working when making edits. As clicks and pops at the edit points are negligible. Ableton is extremely easy to use and you will find yourself with a creative mix within minutes using the supplied loops. I have to admit I had the thing belting out something that resembled pop in about half an hour without even reading the manual. Enabled the midi controller slaved to my triton, setup my midi and record channels, routed my audio and effects sends, recorded some piano melodies. Threw in an instance of amplitube onto a channel. Routed my guitar, recorded an accompaniment. did the same for my bass guitar, then finally setup another midi channel and dragged in an instance of LM-9 and recorded a hilarious percussion mid track. Highlighted all the recordings and mixed down to wav. Easier done than said.

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Great, and definately very adequate, you have sample rates of 16 32 44 and 48 khz, bit depths of I believe 16 & 32. More than enough to achieve polished works. As expected, changing to higher sample rates and bit depths do increase strain on the hard drive and processor quite significantly. With my setup at 44khz 16bit I haven't had a single hiccup on a P4 3.2 HT notebook with 512 megs ram. With a good ASIO audio interface you can achieve very nice & stable low latencies. I am currently achieving 4 ms with an M-audio Mobilepre with samples set to 80 on the mobilepre control panel. Ableton delivers crystal clear audio period.

    Rock Solid. Ableton is stable even with seriously high computer, ram and hardrive loads that would concern a machine pamperer. On one session I had 9 instances of amplitube on various guitar patches, 12 instances of compressors (CP2S and Rcomp), reverbs, limiters, an instance of quasistereo on every channel, Tracks suite, L2, Lexiverb on the master out ... all in all about 35-40 intensive plugins. All with no hiccups. i was even able to setup two new vocal channels each with its own compressor, de-esser,eq, c4, exciter and autotuner. I even recorded the vocals in real with little to no audible delay present in the headset monitors. I have yet to experience what it's like to really max out Abletons abilities on my P4 3.2 HT notebook.

    OVERALL OPINION

    Ableton is very unique and streamlined. It's design is very straightforward yet powerful and allows you to perform tasks quickly and efficiently. It's sequencing capabilites are it's strengths and it's recording and automation capabilities can hold their own against the better established names. Ableton is as much fun to use as it is simple and you'll find yourself making music more than grumbling over questions and dead ends. I frequently find myself sequencing t'ill the sun re-appears and it's clear Ableton's produced simple yet potent tool in the arsenal.

    Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
    Posted by: owendolmer ( 3-, 2006)
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    Ableton Live 5Published on 10/31/08 at 16:00
    Likely targeted as an intuitive sequencing instrument, Ableton does a great job of including many elements of standard DAW's into it's workspace. You get a fairly standard set of plugins. Delays, EQ's as well as Ableton's Operator synth and a new BeatRepeat tool all clad in Abletons skin color. I haven't used these much as I mainly use my own plugins in VST and VSTi format. There is an intuitive browser on the left hand side of the workspace that allows for organization of your projects, plugins, loops etc. It can be collapsed to expand your workspace. You get a fairly standard set of loops aimed towards the more hip hoppy/technoish/house side of things which I'm sure many will find useful.…
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    Likely targeted as an intuitive sequencing instrument, Ableton does a great job of including many elements of standard DAW's into it's workspace. You get a fairly standard set of plugins. Delays, EQ's as well as Ableton's Operator synth and a new BeatRepeat tool all clad in Abletons skin color. I haven't used these much as I mainly use my own plugins in VST and VSTi format. There is an intuitive browser on the left hand side of the workspace that allows for organization of your projects, plugins, loops etc. It can be collapsed to expand your workspace. You get a fairly standard set of loops aimed towards the more hip hoppy/technoish/house side of things which I'm sure many will find useful. An excellent feature practically exclusive of Ableton's is its time stretching ability. You can easily drag a loop or recording into the session or clip view, trigger it and conform it to the current sessions tempo. The stretching algorithm is quite unique in that it allows you to choose a processing method to deliver the best sounding stretch. You can choose from beat, texture, tone, or complex modes. I find that most percussive loops sound best using the beat setting. and tone and complex modes work best with richer recordings or whole audio clips. Keep in mind that selecting complex will be more intensive on the cpu. Sound quality is great with the re-synced loops and recordings. On the right is an awesome tutorial browser allowing for quick and easy access to tutorials that can be read as you operate the software. It can be also collapsible to expand the workspace view. Ableton does a great job of making the tutorials thorough yet simple, another point that contributes to it's quick learning curve. You even get a little box on the lower left hand side that displays information on every aspect of ableton's mechanics as youplace your mouse cursor over it. For example, if you have no idea what "that little knob" does, simply place your cursor over it and Ableton tells you exactly what it does and how to do it. Something ableton lacks is a better method of organizing comps in the audio recording view. I personally would have liked to see some form of playlist system for managing takes since Ableton really is able to give you a thorough project oriented music production experience.

    Price paid

    281.00 USD (Ebay)

    Extremely easy to use. Abletons workflow is highly streamlined. You have a unique clip session view where you can simply drag and drop premade or recorded loops into various arrangements and trigger or record them similtaneously or individually in real time. I find this intuitive system especially handy for creating loop based melodic segments (chorus, bridges, etc..) quickly and efficiently. You can record on the fly manually using raw data (line inputs) or midi data (vsti's, hardware modules etc). By the way, Abletons midi handling is simple and powerful. Routing is very flexible via midi channels and can handle just about anything from choosing hardware modules as source from the dropdown menus to running intensive vsti modules such as korg legacy cell which you simply drag and drop from the file browser to the midi strip. Every control aspect of ableton within the workspace is fully automatable and can be programmed to an external controller or the computer keyboard via a simple to use keymap feature. You can draw in automation within the session view. I drew a sine wave pattern onto a level automation and watched the faders on my mixer glide in unison.. fairly entertaining. Using Abletons track recording view, you can record easily and edit it all using the classic cut and paste, region seperation, conforming, slicing methods etc.. Ableton has straight forward and flexible quantizing features which I find to be adequate and fairly precise even with abusive cutting and pasting. This works especially well with midi track recordings. A great thing about ableton is it seems to have some kind of noise reduction algorithm working when making edits. As clicks and pops at the edit points are negligible. Ableton is extremely easy to use and you will find yourself with a creative mix within minutes using the supplied loops. I have to admit I had the thing belting out something that resembled pop in about half an hour without even reading the manual. Enabled the midi controller slaved to my triton, setup my midi and record channels, routed my audio and effects sends, recorded some piano melodies. Threw in an instance of amplitube onto a channel. Routed my guitar, recorded an accompaniment. did the same for my bass guitar, then finally setup another midi channel and dragged in an instance of LM-9 and recorded a hilarious percussion mid track. Highlighted all the recordings and mixed down to wav. Easier done than said.

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Great, and definately very adequate, you have sample rates of 16 32 44 and 48 khz, bit depths of I believe 16 & 32. More than enough to achieve polished works. As expected, changing to higher sample rates and bit depths do increase strain on the hard drive and processor quite significantly. With my setup at 44khz 16bit I haven't had a single hiccup on a P4 3.2 HT notebook with 512 megs ram. With a good ASIO audio interface you can achieve very nice & stable low latencies. I am currently achieving 4 ms with an M-audio Mobilepre with samples set to 80 on the mobilepre control panel. Ableton delivers crystal clear audio period.

    Rock Solid. Ableton is stable even with seriously high computer, ram and hardrive loads that would concern a machine pamperer. On one session I had 9 instances of amplitube on various guitar patches, 12 instances of compressors (CP2S and Rcomp), reverbs, limiters, an instance of quasistereo on every channel, Tracks suite, L2, Lexiverb on the master out ... all in all about 35-40 intensive plugins. All with no hiccups. i was even able to setup two new vocal channels each with its own compressor, de-esser,eq, c4, exciter and autotuner. I even recorded the vocals in real with little to no audible delay present in the headset monitors. I have yet to experience what it's like to really max out Abletons abilities on my P4 3.2 HT notebook.

    OVERALL OPINION

    Ableton is very unique and streamlined. It's design is very straightforward yet powerful and allows you to perform tasks quickly and efficiently. It's sequencing capabilites are it's strengths and it's recording and automation capabilities can hold their own against the better established names. Ableton is as much fun to use as it is simple and you'll find yourself making music more than grumbling over questions and dead ends. I frequently find myself sequencing t'ill the sun re-appears and it's clear Ableton's produced simple yet potent tool in the arsenal.

    Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
    Posted by: owendolmer ( 3-, 2006)
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    Ableton Live 5Published on 10/31/08 at 16:00
    I love its sequencers. It has a linear sequencer as well as a pattern based sequencer. The interface is about as cute as Whoppi Goldberg mugshots but the functionaility of this program is remarkable. It is literally an extension of ur finger tips. My only real beef with the program is its a resource hog and the GUI

    Easy as pie and it comes with a whole bunch of tutorials to make learning it that much easier.

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Great quality. No complaints about its sound what so ever.

    OVERALL OPINION

    Its not my favorite program but its a really really good one. Id recommend it to anyone who wants to start w/ professional all in one software.

    Originally posted on Fut…
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    I love its sequencers. It has a linear sequencer as well as a pattern based sequencer. The interface is about as cute as Whoppi Goldberg mugshots but the functionaility of this program is remarkable. It is literally an extension of ur finger tips. My only real beef with the program is its a resource hog and the GUI

    Easy as pie and it comes with a whole bunch of tutorials to make learning it that much easier.

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Great quality. No complaints about its sound what so ever.

    OVERALL OPINION

    Its not my favorite program but its a really really good one. Id recommend it to anyone who wants to start w/ professional all in one software.

    Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
    Posted by: Xabiton ( 4-, 2006)
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    Ableton Live 5Published on 10/31/08 at 16:00
    I love its sequencers. It has a linear sequencer as well as a pattern based sequencer. The interface is about as cute as Whoppi Goldberg mugshots but the functionaility of this program is remarkable. It is literally an extension of ur finger tips. My only real beef with the program is its a resource hog and the GUI

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Great quality. No complaints about its sound what so ever.

    Easy as pie to use and it comes with a whole bunch of tutorials to make learning it that much easier.

    OVERALL OPINION

    Its not my favorite program but its a really really good one. Id recommend it to anyone who wants to start w/ professional all in one software.

    Originally posted…
    Read more
    I love its sequencers. It has a linear sequencer as well as a pattern based sequencer. The interface is about as cute as Whoppi Goldberg mugshots but the functionaility of this program is remarkable. It is literally an extension of ur finger tips. My only real beef with the program is its a resource hog and the GUI

    SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE

    Great quality. No complaints about its sound what so ever.

    Easy as pie to use and it comes with a whole bunch of tutorials to make learning it that much easier.

    OVERALL OPINION

    Its not my favorite program but its a really really good one. Id recommend it to anyone who wants to start w/ professional all in one software.

    Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
    Posted by: Xabiton ( 4-, 2006)
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