jlgrimes wrote:It will be interesting to see if Ableton offers anything this year and will they fix certain areas (PDC?), and what areas will they improve on?. Bitwig seems to be advancing pretty fast. Ableton knows they will need to hit pretty hard on the next version of Live.
For all we know, Ableton haven't even so much as glanced at Bitwig, perhaps ever. That's not a judgement, mind you, just another useless theory: though I could certainly show some practical evidence that nothing -- literally no thing -- done by them since the release of bitwig would suggest even the slightest tremor of concern on their part that, gasp, their ex-employee's start-up might threaten to steal a few slices of the hipster-DAW pie. Meanwhile, of course, the forum runs rampant with the usual bogus speculation about a contest that exists only in the minds of its users...(though somewhere, I'm sure, SOMEbody is tracking the DAW$$ against the OTHERDAW$$, but if there's anything meaningful to be learned from it, nothing resembling substantial fact has trickled into this basement of a forum).
In the realm of actual data, there is nothing to suggest over in the alpha/beta forums that Ableton will be doing anything major at anytime soon, which, I know, is shocking considering the MIND-BLOWING features of bitwig's latest crawl toward increasing relevance: group tracks, audition functionality in the browser, and some new presets. OH LORDY!! I'm sure Gerhard just shat two frankfurters into his gym shorts.
in my opinion, PUSH was ableton's last big PUSH (har!) toward commanding a unique market, and over in beta-land, pretty much 90% of attention has been focused thereabouts for the past dozen or so updates.
/sigh
