Surround Support?

gamebea · Post by **gamebea** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 7:48 pm

What about support for surround? At least 5.1

Idonotlikebroccoli · Post by **Idonotlikebroccoli** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:35 pm

Give me a set of surround speakers, so I can automate things going around me!

subbasshead · Post by **subbasshead** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:46 pm

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:12 pm

I work in quad, mixing to four speakers, so surround support of quad, 5.1, etc. will be huge.

Want to see a little "joystick" or grid option for every channel, with corresponding routing.

so... BUMP!

Idonotlikebroccoli · Post by **Idonotlikebroccoli** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:40 am

I second the comment I wrote a year ago. The urge to make music in surround has only grown bigger.

subbasshead · Post by **subbasshead** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:49 am

and me too!

the problem (for ableton) is that the longer they dont support it
the more time we spend in other apps (protools, logic et al)
experimenting & learning about 5.1..
(& for that reason i still can't consider LIVE a mixing environment)

& you know what, for all that video of Robert Henke that surfaced
of him playing in my home country & mouthing off about how
sometimes 'we' dont even 'need' 16bit audio or vocoders or whatever,
that gig was specifically advertised as a surround concert/performance...

methink its time for an official ableton contribution to this thread?

& dont tell me its rocket science, cos the science is all around us!

Idonotlikebroccoli · Post by **Idonotlikebroccoli** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 11:41 pm

Yeah. There are other programs with surround, but getting to know a new program is too awkward and useless for me now. If they add this one feature to v8, I'm upgrading.

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:05 am

Idonotlikebroccoli wrote:Yeah. There are other programs with surround, but getting to know a new program is too awkward and useless for me now. If they add this one feature to v8, I'm upgrading.

Exactly.

Live is so appropriate for what I do. That's why I purchased it back in 2002, & have paid for every upgrade since. All it needs are a few tweaks & I'll be very satisfied.

subbasshead · Post by **subbasshead** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:40 am

All it needs are a few tweaks & I'll be very satisfied.

tee hee
i bet the ablertons just laughed themselves silly
i dont mean any disrespect to you (esp with such a great name)
but i will quote you that most human trait:
'familiarity breeds contempt'

once you have what you need, very soon you will want/need more

i'm prepared to bet money! only euros or yen tho...
(we all know us$ wont be worth anything soon)

but i totally agree

& if I do a quick survey, lets see; its only ableton LIVE
& ProTools LE that DONT natively support surround
& thats a brush i am sure they dont aim to be tarred with?

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:06 am

subbasshead wrote:
All it needs are a few tweaks & I'll be very satisfied.
tee hee
i bet the ablertons just laughed themselves silly
i dont mean any disrespect to you (esp with such a great name)
but i will quote you that most human trait:
'familiarity breeds contempt'

once you have what you need, very soon you will want/need more

i'm prepared to bet money! only euros or yen tho...
(we all know us$ wont be worth anything soon)

but i totally agree

& if I do a quick survey, lets see; its only ableton LIVE
& ProTools LE that DONT natively support surround
& thats a brush i am sure they dont aim to be tarred with?

Well, you got a point there! The more you use the new tools, the more you see the next wave of what's needed just on the horizon.

But, seriously, there are really just a few primary tweaks that would have me rolling on the floor with glee should they ever appear. Plus, I'm not greedy!

I figure that surround support is inevitable, I mean what year are we living in again?

I just hope they support a simple quad surround, as well as the more common surround formats like 5.1.

ubermnd · Post by **ubermnd** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:02 pm

Been composing in 4+ channel sound for a while now and I can't imagine going back! I'd love to see full support for ambisonic encoding, decoding and playback too.

dhilsabeck · Post by **dhilsabeck** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:19 am

+1

Please

LeifonMars · Post by **LeifonMars** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:31 am

+1 sign me up as well.

j2j · Post by **j2j** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:17 am

Emissary · Post by **Emissary** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:07 am