YeahItsMe wrote:So am I correct when I ask that when checking for mono compatibility, I can make the track into mono and see if anything cancels out?

i dont know about all the daw's. but i do know that Cubase will merge the L and R channels while avoiding phase issues. Logic probably does too.

LilWUB wrote:That's it! I'm never panning again!

funny.

just hard to believe all live rigs are one mono output.

Hi guys

I have noticed a lot of DJ's are moving towards the ableton live setup instead of using CDJS/turntables etc.

What do you prefer and why??

When you wrote this that was probably the case.
But I keep encountering the same scenario:
I make a clean, professional mix in cubase or logic, and ...

having this prob with Ableton as well.
just noticed last night that there's always like EXTRA LOW freqs coming out of live's master bus, no matter what instrument is playing. even just a hihat.
im talking like 12-15 Hz.
it eats up headroom.
The EQ8, even five of them stacked up in a row dont remove ...

Joel (the mau5 man) uses Cubase.
It is always open.
AbletonLive is ReWired to it. Along with all those outboard synths.
Sections of music are recorded and rendered in Cubase,
then put into AbletonLive for mashing, and all the stuff Live is good at.

Cubase renders whatever you are hearing (like if ...

just out of curiousity, is there a big difference between the quality of pitch correction in Ableton Live's Complex Pro and Autotune or Melodyne?

yes, melodyne makes it sound perfect, abletons is still allright, though programs like auto tune and melodyne are miles better.

Am I missing ...

they don't write back.
is it normal that a the progress bar stays at the halfway point and says "preparing track for transcoding" for, like...2 days?

well here's my rant...if you have a minute, or any knowledge that might help a fellow human, well, it would stop me from clawing the walls off.

my burning questions (and I mean they cause me actual pain):


- I come across mixes at soundcloud many times and the waveform looks like a solid BLOCK OF ...

the waveform is a SOLID BLOCK and I've been trying to figure out for literally YEARS how that is achieved.
When I get even close to that my mixes sound horrible.

Divane wrote:

LAN multi-user jamming
Multiple users can jam on the same document, and everything can be captured in the document's arrangement.

omg

Just looked at some vids about this DAW and can't even explain how psyched I am to have it.
Mainly because of my years' of unanswered frustrations with Live.