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Absolutely. So I spent a lot of time last night with the Reason 4 demo -- pulling up old tracks of mine, and running them through the new compressors and mastering tools. I also pulled down the Massive demo -- and yeah, the sound detail and bigness can't really be matched. But Reason def. sounds MUC...

Naive Teen Idol wrote:That's really cool to hear. I was wondering how the loops v. hits layout worked. How do you make the internal variations of the loops? Is it like a MIDI file within a MIDI file?

Ok, answered my own question here by watching the video -- the MIDI keys trigger patterns, basically. Dur.

That's really cool to hear. I was wondering how the loops v. hits layout worked. How do you make the internal variations of the loops? Is it like a MIDI file within a MIDI file? Thinking about Reason 4, still -- one advantage? 2GB install size v. 33GB for Kontakt (which is amazing, but beyond what I...

That's a good point to know re. Thor. It sounds like I should download the demo of Massive! I'm still a bit hesitant re. Kontakt (or EIC, for that matter) b/c of the external HD need. Not a huge issue, tho, so this is very helpful.

Thanks -- I did notice the Live 7 upgrade suite and thought about it some. But I feel like some of that stuff (Analog, etc.) may not be uber-necessary given the other things I own. Then again, it's pretty cheap. As for Reason 4, thin? I thought the thinness of the sound issue was taken care of in 3....

I used to use a computer with Reason 2.5 and Live 3 -- it worked very well together. I would often sequence stuff in Reason and drop it into scenes in Live. I was very comfortable in that setup. Flash forward to today where I have an Intel Mac, Live 6, Reaktor 5...and a busy job and newborn baby. An...

Just saw that puremagnetik has a "Tips and Tricks" section up for this now.

Good stuff. I really want to spend more time on this thing...

My first instinct is: I agree w/ this. I went from Live 3 to Live 6, skipping 4 and 5. That was an enormous jump. But adding drum racks and a few instruments isn't. I'm sure it's a fine product--and I might yet get it (the suite, most likely)--but this doesn't exactly seem like a Great Leap Forward ...

As a synth, mostly. I'm still trying to learn how to use a lot of the instruments (sequencers, etc.) in a way that's practical for composition. Not quite there yet.

FWIW, 6.0.9 was the first version of Live I've had where I experienced frequent crashes. Hoping this one gets back to the stability Live's known for...

Amazing that every time Micah posts something, there's four pages of complaining about their subscription policy. At the risk of sounding like a Republican, get a job, people. Anyway, I just had a chance to play with this for once. Good stuff, yet again. Really enjoying the step seq stuff... I'm par...

Ok, I'm an asshole. It's done in the clip. I hadn't used the clip in so long during this, I had no idea.

On Puremagnetik's Retroputer, the step sequencer works by having a chain selector range -- where the orange bar is set at 1 but there's an orange dot that steps through each of the subsequent steps and resets at 16. For the life of me, I can't figure out where that range is set or how to change it. ...

I downloaded the Mac OSX one last night -- it installed fine, but I haven't used it yet. One thing I'm interested to know is if there's anything out there that allows you to use a touchpad like you would a ribbon controller: not just to move left right, or up down, but to do trills where you hold, s...

I'm not sure I totally get how this ensemble or the Logic plug works.