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artpunk wrote:I am so glad I joined this incredibly positive and enthusiastic community! You are all such an inspiration... really...

I love browsing the forums, and have since I bought Ableton almost a year ago. But yeah, the general negativity around here sometimes is sad/ridiculous.

This post reminds me of when my uncle told me that muti-tracking was cheating. Technology makes things obsolete, even musical talent. Dont worry musicianship isnt going away. But you might as well use the technology to your advantage. Look at us, a bunch of muti-tracking cheaters.

I know a guy who did this 20 years ago. He had a degree in composition and did a scored music for farts. He sampled them and arranged them. It was called Poopdaddy.

T.I.M. wrote:This post reminds me of when my uncle told me that muti-tracking was cheating. Technology makes things obsolete, even musical talent. Dont worry musicianship isnt going away. But you might as well use the technology to your advantage. Look at us, a bunch of muti-tracking cheaters.

Cheating device or Teaching device? I'm hoping the Audio to Midi capture is going to help me with song progression, chuck in a ditty from a track, maybe even one I've written and etract the note, scale and song progression. I want it to help me add to my musicianship.

Gregory Wells-King wrote:I'm hoping the Audio to Midi capture is going to help me with song progression,

This is my hope too. Im quite happy in how I can build up a x bar loop layering drums and various instruments and effects but just simply find it difficult to progress that on to a fresh part (say a chorus to verse). Will concede that the music looping in the background is an inhibitor but I find I can hum how to progress a tune when away from the computer so if audio-to-midi will allow me to work in this fashion I think it could go some way in really helping me finish tracks faster.

A lot of my ideas come when sitting bored at work or commuting. Might sound a bit bonkers but I honestly can see myself sloping off to the bogs to record a hum (vocal hum, not a smelly hum... ) on my phone and then to drop it in to Live when home. Of course, making a big assumption on the usabilty of this function but if it works like how the clips indicate then it will be a lot of fun.