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What DAW's should I buy to get Ableton features in my DAW?

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:10 am
by Kilroy
I would like some suggestions for DAW's that I can purchase so that I can get as close a features set to what Live has to offer. What DAW's are best?

Please list your suggestions for the closest approximations to the following.

Session View
Warping
Library

Synths:
Operator
Analog
Electric

Samplers:
Sampler
Simpler

Effects:
Beat Repeat Madness
Detonator
Crunch-n-munch

And Session Drums.

And what sample libraries should I purchase that have the closest content to what EIC has to offer?

Thank you for your suggestions, and let me know if the built in SoundBlaster devices come close to any of Live's instruments and effects.

p.s., the internet is made of kittens.

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:56 am
by funky shit
trollin to the ultimate max

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:09 am
by gurumonkey
wait, do you have live? why not live? am i missing something?

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:19 am
by lunabass
gurumonkey wrote:wait, do you have live? why not live? am i missing something?
yes.

http://forum.ableton.com//viewtopic.php ... sc&start=0

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:22 am
by gurumonkey
pwned.
ha.

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 4:19 am
by Jekblad
sounds like you need reason.

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 4:43 am
by Pickle Sprocket
I have heard that Pro Tools is the industry standard, you might want to take a look over at http://www.digidesign.com

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:00 am
by Da hand
Is there some theme going on this week?

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:29 am
by paradiddle
Who wants to see a photo of my dead grandma?

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:34 am
by Willyum
I hope you trolls get herpes all along your bottom lip and get forced to eat Atomic Hot Wings! :evil:

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:02 pm
by Kilroy
I cannot use Ableton due to private issues.

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:13 pm
by funky shit
paradiddle wrote:Who wants to see a photo of my dead grandma?
ME

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:33 pm
by myxomat0515
I have heard that Pro Tools is the industry standard, you might want to take a look over at www.digidesign.com
Good lookin out sprocket. I've heard that too......

hahahaha. thank you

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 4:04 pm
by uku
Funny how there is really nothing out there now that can compare with the Session View in Live. After all these years of DAW development, only Ableton was able to successfully advance the workflow that musicians want to follow - not simply a glorified tapedeck like Pro Tools, etc.

To my (limited) knowledge, the only other DAW/Sequencer that had any arrangement capabilities beyond copy/paste is the old Opcode Studio Vision Pro for the Mac.. back in the mid-late '90s. You could make, say, an 8 or 16 bar loop, call it "verse", and then another separate sequence with audio and MIDI, call it "chorus"... and you could audition your arrangement using keystrokes and step record them into a master sequence as your actual arrangement. Then you could build on top of that for transitions, vocals, etc.

In effect you end up with a workflow that isn't that different from Live, albeit without the real-time fun/performace factor - and with all the annoyances that came with DAWs in the '90s. Gibson bought out Opcode and killed it altogether unfortunately.

Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:38 pm
by paradiddle
funky shit wrote:
paradiddle wrote:Who wants to see a photo of my dead grandma?
ME
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