How do you use Live?

Discuss music production with Ableton Live.

I use Ableton

... for music production
37
48%
... for DJ purposes
3
4%
... for "live looping"
3
4%
... as a rewire slave because I like certain aspects only
2
3%
... for VJ purposes
0
No votes
... for something else
4
5%
... never
1
1%
... 4 EVERYTHING!!!
27
35%
 
Total votes: 77

Yhtomit
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How do you use Live?

Post by Yhtomit » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:09 pm

I wonder....

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Post by creature » Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:05 pm

I use it for music production. I have rarely used the session view though. Althouh I keep meaning too. I mainly use arrangement view. stuck in my ways i guess, but it works for me :-)

Steve

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Post by Pasha » Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:35 pm

I create my music using Session View or jamming with myself Live then I move the relevant clips in arrangement and begin arranging.
Live = pure dope.

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Post by Tone Deft » Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:58 pm

Pasha wrote:I create my music using Session View or jamming with myself Live then I move the relevant clips in arrangement and begin arranging.
Live = pure dope.
+1 but 99% session view.
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Post by jamester » Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:47 pm

I voted "Rewire slave...", though I use it standalone as well. Live Rewired to Reaper gives me the awesome Drum Racks, Rex file support, and the Session view for playing around with grooves.

For audio recording and mixing it's Reaper all the way, so the two programs together give me everything I need and more.
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Post by snowtires » Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:54 pm

i don't really write how session view works, so i tend to stick to arrangement view. i've used session view once, i think.

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Post by doc holiday » Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:56 pm

Tone Deft wrote:
Pasha wrote:I create my music using Session View or jamming with myself Live then I move the relevant clips in arrangement and begin arranging.
Live = pure dope.
+1 but 99% session view.
+2 but 95% session, i get 4% out of arrange with consolidate alone.

by the time i get to arrange i'm just comping my takes

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Post by heavensdaw » Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:09 pm

doc holiday wrote:
Tone Deft wrote:
Pasha wrote:I create my music using Session View or jamming with myself Live then I move the relevant clips in arrangement and begin arranging.
Live = pure dope.
+1 but 99% session view.
+2 but 95% session, i get 4% out of arrange with consolidate alone.

by the time i get to arrange i'm just comping my takes
Yep +3 Oh yeah yesserie! I'm addicted to session view...
It just makes beautiful (non)sense 98.765476% :D

I like arrangement too for tracking and finishing off..

Hd

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Post by miqueas1 » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:08 pm

creature wrote:I use it for music production. I have rarely used the session view though. Althouh I keep meaning too. I mainly use arrangement view. stuck in my ways i guess, but it works for me :-)

Steve
man that's what makes Live different from the others!! LOL

I am just kidding.. I learned on Session view... with that Berkley Class... really good for jamming and setting things up with the clip envelopes! I really can't get into the Arrangement view until after the session jam has been recorded...


Actually I always start my sets off with session view... get a basic arrangement down... It feels more natural to me... rather than Painting everything in..

I love seeing how people use Live in different ways.. fascinating.
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Post by blank » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:16 pm

I use it mainly for music production

I sometimes mess with live looping to get some start points


since version 7 I'm trying to mix straight in ableton, since the audio engine has changed it's pretty good.

I still use protools for post production stuff but I have live rewired in it most of the time now

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Post by dcease » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:32 pm

what's live?

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Post by noisetonepause » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:33 pm

I've got a load of different 'setups' here, old computers sequencing old hardware, self-contained hardware, newer computers running software, etc etc, tonnes of crap. I just make patterns and record/load those into Live for arranging and tweaking.

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Post by Homebelly » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:46 pm

I use session view most of the time to build arrangements and jam out ideas.
Then i record the rough into arrange view,, bounce it out and finnish in Logic.
I spend most of my time in the session view of Live.
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Post by weeddigger » Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:00 am

I just got Live on Sunday. I've been learning the in's and out's of Logic for the last year or so. Looking to use 'em both together. From Logic to Live, maybe back to Logic and back to Live and maybe back around again...

Don't know...

Not sure...

We'll get back to you in a year or so on this one...

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Post by taaloopa » Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:26 pm

Live looping percussion in session view.
mainly been working for performance, just starting to get some 'takes' of sessions bounced into arrangement.
Live 9 macbook pro 2.2Ghz 10GB Ram MOTU Traveller Axiom 25 controller & lots of percussion...

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