Waves, NI, Celemony, Sound Toys - Ableton Versions!
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:46 am
IMO the native Ableton plugins have the most ergonomic UI's around. Ableton developers revolutionized this so much that it's almost a pain to use third party plugins with their annoying floating windows that take up precious real estate on our screens. Some of these (Waves in particular) are just fancy looking just for the sake of nostalgia and serve no useful purpose in terms of simple to the point functionality. I understand that some people like this so they can always use VSTs etc.
My wishlist idea is for Ableton to release an toolkit for plugin manufacturers that easily helps them port their plugins into the native Live in system. For example, imagine an Ableton version of Massive with the ergonomics of Sampler or Operator, it would be epic. Or a version of the Waves CLA Compressors that borrow from the ingenious simplicity of the Live Compressor. Throw in some color and vintage design if it will sell more units but focus on ergonomics and bin integration like the native ableton plugs - down with floating windows!
Presonus recently copied this concept from Ableton and took it a step further by having a built in Melodyne in their latest release. Presonus! I didn't even know they had a DAW but damn thats a cool idea to steal and make better! I'm actually kind of surprised Live developers let Presonus beat them to the punch. Hope Ableton doesn't suffer the fate of many great companies that start out with fantastic innovation but slow down only to let the competition steal all their ideas and wash them away.
My wishlist idea is for Ableton to release an toolkit for plugin manufacturers that easily helps them port their plugins into the native Live in system. For example, imagine an Ableton version of Massive with the ergonomics of Sampler or Operator, it would be epic. Or a version of the Waves CLA Compressors that borrow from the ingenious simplicity of the Live Compressor. Throw in some color and vintage design if it will sell more units but focus on ergonomics and bin integration like the native ableton plugs - down with floating windows!
Presonus recently copied this concept from Ableton and took it a step further by having a built in Melodyne in their latest release. Presonus! I didn't even know they had a DAW but damn thats a cool idea to steal and make better! I'm actually kind of surprised Live developers let Presonus beat them to the punch. Hope Ableton doesn't suffer the fate of many great companies that start out with fantastic innovation but slow down only to let the competition steal all their ideas and wash them away.