Using Live for Rock ROCKS!

nebulae · Post by **nebulae** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:36 am

For those of you who may think Live is only for electronic music (for which it is in fact great), check out this track of a band that I'm producing. Note, this is rough and needs polish, but I'm excited enough about this to share ...

http://www.nebulae.com/business.mp3

Now whether you like the song or not, the point I'm trying to make here is that I'm using Live in a very traditional multi-track way for this song, and it works great and sounds great. Most of the track effects are Live plugs, and I'm using Ilia's AutoHotKey script to do a lot of zooming-n-editing. There are about 30 tracks currently, with guitar, bass, drums, vocals, and tons and heaps of effects. Also, I've tried the same set of files in a Sonar project, and I just couldn't get the sound to be as good as easily. So there you have it...Live ROCKS.

Fanboy Post End.

chis · Post by **chis** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:02 am

I recently started working on some recording projects with a friend who uses Logic. I haven't touched Logic in a while - it's been 100% Ableton for me since v4 was released. But once I started trying to add effects to channels in Logic, I immediately wished for Live's horizontal track panel. At least with Ableton it is possible to switch the plugin order with a click and a drag. Wake up, Apple!

If I were to use Ableton as a DAW, multi-track recorder or whatever, I would want the mixer/scene view on a second monitor at all times. At least this is possible with Logic...

glu · Post by **glu** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:04 am

yeah, i am working on some rock'ish tracks and I must agree.. live rocks! Not only does it rock for recording and producing..

but as the idea grabber song scratch pad:

it kicks ass from session slot recording, to scene triggering, to arranger view recording and automation, etc etc... It just rocks!

Check out my music profile on myspace. I just made it to have a few tracks online. All done in live 5- 2 rockish tracks and two instrumentals. Check out momma africa for the west african jam, live + drum circle!

http://www.myspace.com/planetglu

kenn michael · Post by **kenn michael** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:07 am

chis wrote:At least with Ableton it is possible to switch the plugin order with a click and a drag. Wake up, Apple!

Well, not quite click and drag, but command click and drag in the Track Mixer - it's already there!

Contra · Post by **Contra** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:29 am

dope ness, was thinkin of the same thing and swearin by it, recording a jazz album in the MTR of Live insted of importing from pro tools.

rock on!

ikke · Post by **ikke** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:44 am

i speak a little bit polish! pm me for vocals

subSonik · Post by **subSonik** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:54 am

I record a rock band with Live and a fcb1010. pro tools people definately have to hide how impressed they are with this one.

Rogue Scrunt · Post by **Rogue Scrunt** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:27 pm

subSonik wrote:I record a rock band with Live and a fcb1010. pro tools people definately have to hide how impressed they are with this one.

some details please. if you will diverge the secret of your techniqu

muthafunka · Post by **muthafunka** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:36 pm

Been doing a sequenced backbeat/synth-dirtiness plus live drums and bass thing for a while and it does indeed rock most hard.
Only thing I've been finding is getting rid of the latency gap at the beginning of drum tracks, guess that might be something to do with setting up the compensation, sure I did this but still finding the need to nudge/warp tracks.

barstu · Post by **barstu** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:19 pm

More rock, all recorded and sequenced through ableton

http://stubar.blogspot.com/2006/12/song ... ra-v1.html

cannone · Post by **cannone** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:24 pm

And here I thought I was the only one.....

www.myspace.com/cannonturner

and the band I produce/play guitar for:

www.myspace.com/blissontap

So easy....and definatly grabs ideas....

Live is the shit.

glu · Post by **glu** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:27 pm

Live is great for all styles... latin jazz, gospel, recording notes, as well as cues for dramas, radio, TV, jingles..etc.etc.

I f%*$ing use Live to record notes for school sometimes..!!! each clip is titled according to the key word of the studyguide. I think I will experiment next semester's clase de español with Ableton spanish book chapters. Fark ya!

slatepipe · Post by **slatepipe** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 7:01 pm

we made this whole album with live, it rocks in a kind of experimental style

http://www.mandolinrecords.co.uk/pages/ ... s.html#010

there's a couple of mp3s to check if you fancy a listen. the last track gets me buzzing the most

datapopstar · Post by **datapopstar** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:28 am

i have done this from start to end in live....live rocks!!!

http://www.myspace.com/perlich

simpleton · Post by **simpleton** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 7:53 pm

This is blasphemy! Live is to be used only for "club/dance" music by metrosexual DJ's with shaved heads and tattered clothing. All the leather-clad longhairs should stay in the Sonar forum.