whats the difference between a DAW and ableton ?

TITBAG · Post by **TITBAG** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:18 pm

i think this is a SUPERB question

see the light · Post by **see the light** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:24 pm

I walked through a DAW once, it was fucking awesome...

Noel · Post by **Noel** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:47 pm

When did sequencers become DAWs?

Never really understood the need for the term unless it's referring to the whole set up including hardware and software.

Live, Logic, Cubase, etc are are just components of a DAW.

andydes · Post by **andydes** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:58 pm

I think the difference is more to do with what live can do that DAWs can't. ie. performance, recording on the fly, live looping, realtime improvisation, etc.

The concept was built around these ideas more than traditional multitrack recording environment. Although it can obviously do this as well, it wasn't the initial aim of the program, so yes it misses some functionality in that regard compared to cubase, logic, etc.

Some people regard these missing features them as "basic" daw features they can't understand why Live doesn't have, and others see them as unnecessary complexity that would detract from the Live concept. Kind of depends on how you use the program really.

andydes · Post by **andydes** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:04 pm

Noel wrote:When did sequencers become DAWs?

When they started recording audio, I guess?

Yeah, the term workstation implies the hardware set up not the software, but who am I to argue with the masses?

ThrowAway · Post by **ThrowAway** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:12 pm

awww did your gf/bf or mommy leave you for an american?

aburgener · Post by **aburgener** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:17 pm

I want some fuckin' McDonalds so bad right now

andydes · Post by **andydes** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 1:20 pm

ThrowAway wrote:awww did your gf/bf or mommy leave you for an american?

More likely, he used to work for Lehman Bros in Canary Wharf.

trash · Post by **trash** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:23 pm

ThrowAway wrote:awww did your gf/bf or mommy leave you for an american?

typical american!

hey, consider this motherfucker. perhaps, just perhaps, im so sick of the putrid bile your kind smear all over the net im fighting back. perhaps ive actually met lots of americans and i hate them because they are ignorant wankers. to americans this kind of thought is so alien they cant fathom it , there is surely no way for them not to be the superior master race they truly believe themselves to be. they have to think of things like 'my mother left me for an american' i mean - if my mother went out with an american, she wouldnt leave me because i dont actually fuck my mother like you. i can still see her when shes in a relationship. jesus h cunt 'you guys' are as thick as two short planks.

trash · Post by **trash** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:25 pm

see the light wrote:I walked through a DAW once, it was fucking awesome...

pure class. +10 points.

trash · Post by **trash** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:26 pm

andydes wrote:
ThrowAway wrote:awww did your gf/bf or mommy leave you for an american?
More likely, he used to work for Lehman Bros in Canary Wharf.

wow, that was pretty really sort of might be funny...
you couldnt be further away from the truth although i should apply for a job now while the goings good....

trash · Post by **trash** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:28 pm

TITBAG wrote:i think this is a SUPERB question

thanks to my many fans out there.
hey man 808 posts!!! BOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM

elxicano · Post by **elxicano** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:28 pm

trash wrote:
andydes wrote:
ThrowAway wrote:awww did your gf/bf or mommy leave you for an american?
More likely, he used to work for Lehman Bros in Canary Wharf.
wow, that was pretty really sort of might be funny...
you couldnt be further away from the truth although i should apply for a job now while the goings good....

Damn, I thought this post crashed, burned, died and went away like a bad memory.

trash · Post by **trash** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:29 pm

im really sorry i forgot i was taking the piss on this thread
ill make sure and drop by again to slag you all off....

all the best and good luck with your crossfades....
oh whoops sorry didnt mean to mention those...

kb420 · Post by **kb420** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:54 pm

Hey Trash, I would like to say that I am an American, and that you can go FUCK yourself!!!!

I am kb420 and I approve this message!!!!!