Convince me to buy Live
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Scott,
About the sound card: it depends on what you need to do. I only have a stereo out, so I don't use pre-listen. I'm sure it's a cool feature, but I get along fine without it. FWIW, I've had great success with a Griffin iMic -- $35 very well spent, especially on a portable laptop rig. (Laptops tend to have pretty noisy sound in/out.)
I bought Live after being disappointed with Reason as a performance tool, too. I'm still just using Reason (playing drums in a band), but I'm fiddling with a one-man show that's just me, my drum controllers, Reason, and Live. For live performance stuff, Live is absolutely THE tool. For the use you're describing, Live is what you want.
Another plus I haven't heard mentioned in this thread: VST effects. There are some pretty whacked VSTs out there.
-Josh
About the sound card: it depends on what you need to do. I only have a stereo out, so I don't use pre-listen. I'm sure it's a cool feature, but I get along fine without it. FWIW, I've had great success with a Griffin iMic -- $35 very well spent, especially on a portable laptop rig. (Laptops tend to have pretty noisy sound in/out.)
I bought Live after being disappointed with Reason as a performance tool, too. I'm still just using Reason (playing drums in a band), but I'm fiddling with a one-man show that's just me, my drum controllers, Reason, and Live. For live performance stuff, Live is absolutely THE tool. For the use you're describing, Live is what you want.
Another plus I haven't heard mentioned in this thread: VST effects. There are some pretty whacked VSTs out there.
-Josh
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Some really amazing VSTs:
-- http://www.ohmforce.com/
I swear by a mix of Frohmage, Hematohm, and OhmBoyz for good fun.
Another cool thing about Live is that the four Sends not only receive but can feed other Sends.
This allows you to set up feedback loops that require very careful balancing but can then yield unpredictable and beautiful results, once you feed in the input seed.
-Alex
-- http://www.ohmforce.com/
I swear by a mix of Frohmage, Hematohm, and OhmBoyz for good fun.
Another cool thing about Live is that the four Sends not only receive but can feed other Sends.
This allows you to set up feedback loops that require very careful balancing but can then yield unpredictable and beautiful results, once you feed in the input seed.
-Alex
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