Simple answer, Mainstage. Mainstage switches entire plug in setups seamlessly in mostly less than a second, multi track plug in setups with controller keyboards split between as many soft synths FX and samplers as your CPU can handle. You can assign all of that to a program change message and have an entirely different controllers and keyboard setup for different parts of the song even, with the same physical hardware. Live has an incredibly cumbersome and poor implementation of this compared, and really, little has changed in the area of live performance in Live beyond Max 4 Live, which is a toolkit, not a seamless solution to this. Nothing has changed in terms of Follow Actions forever, great idea, room for improvement, nothing different since V4 from what I can tell. I could go on, but the lack of ability to switch hardware controller assignments to different plugins and get that CPU back 99% is a big deal to me anyway.donmich wrote: I have always found the dichotomy between a perormance oriented platform and a DAW, or at least Ableton, a false one. To me it seems well suited to both, but why must performance oriented software preclude DAW functions? Maybe you can help me understand this a bit better.
On that line I haven't seen any indication that Bitwig is doing anything revolutionary in that area, hence the post.
