Is Lite enough for my needs

[Bheems]

Hey,

Long story short. I play guitar and a bit of piano, but because of medical conditions I can not play in a band any longer.
So for a time I tried to start my own band and record songs in Logic. But the workflow does not seem to work for me. I am having troubles with the horizontal recordings and not being able to loop a track without copy paste it. It's nice for recording a track, but I am looking to jam something with some backings.

What I want is to jam along with a backing track that I can slowly build up. Having some experience with a very old version of Ableton, I think Ableton and a Launchpad is what I need. I want to use pads to record some drums and backings like bass.

Since all my savings will go to a Launchpad (don't have the money for a Push), I was wondering if the Ste version of Ableton will be sufficient enough for my needs. I looked at the Instruments list and was surprised to only fins a drum synth. I also want to play some bass lines or synths on the Launchpad. Is this possible? Because I don't have the budget to buy the Launchpad and Suite both.

And I have some old AU for Guitar Amps. Can I use those in Lite to record my guitar?

Or do I need to see Lite as a ‘Very very basic test version’ and will it not be sufficient enough for a LaunchPad so that I need to upgrade in a few weeks anyway?

[[jur]]

You should be fine
Lite comes with Simpler which can do many many things (e.g Bass sounds), and you can use AU/VST if you need more.
And if you need more tracks you can still do it the old way... bounce.

[mjudge55]

I concur with the above - you can cover a lotta ground with Lite and then there some truly great free vsts out there that can cover the rest.

[Bheems]

Thanks, good to hear.

One more question. Is there a guitar Amp in Lite to record, like for instance in Garage Band?
Or do I also need to buy a version of an amp modelling AU like Guitar Rack or something?

[[jur]]

Not in Lite, but there's many great free Guitar Amp simulation plugins. And Live's Amp is not really good as a guitar amp anyway.

[Bheems]

Not in Lite, but there's many great free Guitar Amp simulation plugins. And Live's Amp is not really good as a guitar amp anyway.

Thanks. Just opened a new topic (oops)

I used These great free amps in Logic, but Ableton does not seem to recognise them.
https://blackroosteraudio.com/en/products/cypress_tt-15

Am I doing something wrong? All my other plugins are recognised (I downloaded the 90 day trial of Suite). Or had this something to do with my Logic running on a 32-bit Mac and Ableton on 64-bit OS Catalina?

[mjudge55]

I’m guessing those black rooster plugins aren’t yet Catalina compatible. There are free amp sims out there that are though. Bias FX has a free le version that I believe works on Catalina.