Cubase Vs Albeton Live...Any users on here?

[Depone]

I am not a hater but i really dislike ableton, i have tried it on numerous occasions and djake has tried to get me into it with helping me out using it - its just the GUI, so...gimmicy it doesn't let me take it seriously haha - though people who use it do great things so I can't say its a bad DAW just not the DAW for me. Stick with cubase imo.

Im half with you on this one. I also cant stand Fruity poops GUI. makes me cringe.
Nothing wrong with both, i personally cant work with them

[dj $hy]

off topic but...

why do you bounce the TI all the time?

is it cuz the "real time export" ?

that shit gets old

Well I'm sure the softwrae guys will grunt at me but.... I have a mackie desk and I truely believe that when I bounce my Ti through it I get a better sound.... Plus its down to the way I work! I read a Nosia interview a while back and they were banging on about how they get their bass lines so complex! Its not strange fro them to max out the cpu with just a bassline which they will then bring into a new project. So once I get a nice sound out the TI I'll bounce, process more, bounce again and process again and so on until I get what I want! I swear this way of working has given my tracks a real boost in quality but thats just me, sure plenty off the software, all in one box will disagree but its down to personal choice!

I should also point out my PC is only a P3 3.04.... Its an old Carillion Audio PC but as they say, if its not broke dont fix it!

CB also does the bounce within the host but again for me thats not gonna work as I want it to run through the desk where I can EQ the sound before recording it in.

I can see why some people dont like it, I'm having a few issues but I have to say I only opened it last night and I have a beat, vox with FX's and starting b.line so it cant be that hard! I'm very interested in the mangle side of things and like just dropping all these new presets onto my sounds, deffo can see how once you know it that it'll be a lot quicker that CB but I think I'll take Risk's (hello by the way brother, hope ya well matey?!) lead and create in AB and finish in CB!

As I'm starting with AB this week I'll post any q's in here

P.S. This is how serious I am... I went out and bought the Computer Music AB Live special so I have lots of reading to do!

P.S.S. Hey Risk we could always do a colab and you can teach me

[FSTZ]

yeah, I am a believer in analog fuzz, so I understand your reasoning

cheers

JJ

[riskotheque]

P.S.S. Hey Risk we could always do a colab and you can teach me

sounds good mate! hit me on aim anytime

[dj $hy]

Whats ya aim buddie? Mines itchyafterdark Changed mine so maybe I've lost yours.....? Hit me baby, bang up for a session with ya! Actually quite enjoyed my last few days playing with AB and am deffo well up for a shadow session with ya so I can pick up all the tricks Plus we'll make a banger!

[paradigm_x]

I dont use ableton for djing or live much mostly production in a linear fasion. I love the audio editing and the mixer. One thing with 8 is grouping tracks that makes the mixer way nicer for me. I am very curious about everyone saying audio is better in cubase or logic it might be I dont know I want to see this for myself tho. Comes down to preference I think. Ableton works with the way I think and work and frees up a lot of stuff so that my creativity can flow. No real reason to switch but it never hurts to have experience in different formats.

In terms of audio cubase owns for things like;

Pitching/time-stretching etc individual hits, volume envelopes for any "part" (cubase terminology), record stop types pitch bombs, bouncing a load of hits into one part with one click, or vice versa, add any effect (VST plugin) to any audio element instantly etc, ALL with a permanent undo (even years later and after saving, upgrading etc! ). Harder to explain than to do !

Plus multiple groups, a dedicated mixer (i hate abletons 'mixer', toytown) etc.

Abletons owns in many other ways, flexibility mainly, and just ease of use and getting ideas down, but still getting used to it.

[riskotheque]

In terms of audio cubase owns for things like;

Pitching/time-stretching etc individual hits, volume envelopes for any "part" (cubase terminology), record stop types pitch bombs, bouncing a load of hits into one part with one click, or vice versa, add any effect (VST plugin) to any audio element instantly etc, ALL with a permanent undo (even years later and after saving, upgrading etc! ). Harder to explain than to do !

Plus multiple groups, a dedicated mixer (i hate abletons 'mixer', toytown) etc.

Abletons owns in many other ways, flexibility mainly, and just ease of use and getting ideas down, but still getting used to it.

what i wanna see is modulation options in the 'add vst to any part' section, envelopes so the fx doesnt have to be static..... this is where abletons clip envelopes win over for me..... why doesnt cubase have beat markers in the pitch envelope window?? really annoying guessing where half way is.....

check your pm's shy!

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[Over7hink]

gonna post here and fuck up your flow in case you were gonna spell it all out

edit: FUCK!!!!

[JFK]

Maybe next time..........