If you had to chose, what's the single best feature in Live?

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If you had to chose, what's the single best feature in Live?

Post by Anubis » Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:30 am

For me, it has to be follow actions, in the Session view. I find it to be the most useful creative tool that Live has to offer. I like to use it on two adjacent audio tracks containing rhythm elements. Maybe three or four clips in each set to cycle through in some manner. It gets really interesting if you initially trigger the adjacent clips so that they fire slightly offset. You can get some slicy, dicy grooves that way.
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Post by mike holiday » Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:43 am

simple workflow.
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Post by mcconaghy » Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:55 am

Session view.

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Post by LOFA » Wed Apr 19, 2006 4:16 am

warp.

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Post by delicious » Wed Apr 19, 2006 5:26 am

Has to be session view.

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Post by sweetjesus » Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:03 am

my best feature is

File > Exit

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Post by Patch » Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:14 am

Ability to "midi juggle". That shit's the shit...

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Post by hambone1 » Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:00 am

The 15 grand's worth of bookings it's gotten me so far!:D

No, really... it's the ability to integrate audio, video, and lighting into one live multimedia performance package.

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Post by rhythmtech » Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:24 am

session view...

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Post by T.I.M. » Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:38 am

WARP MARKERS!!!!

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Post by spiderprod » Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:44 am

the GUI is what makes me stick to it .
a bit uly but easy workflow .

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Post by minimal » Wed Apr 19, 2006 10:46 am

consolidating without loosing the loop function would be nice, it kinds of pisses me off everytime I consolidate I have to switch the loop on again.

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Post by LOFA » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:04 pm

Patch wrote:Ability to "midi juggle". That shit's the shit...
what is this?

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Post by HD1 » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:08 pm

delicious wrote:Has to be session view.
+100 for session view
bing bing!

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Post by Angstrom » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:32 pm

apart from the obvious basic Live stuff that makes it all hapen - I would go for LiveClips.

I didn't make much use of them for months, but recently they have become very well used.

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