LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

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Re: LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

Post by simpli.cissimus » Sat Dec 22, 2012 4:38 pm

ze2be wrote:
simpli.cissimus wrote:...and wash your mouth, or you get in trouble with your mom for the bad words you use.
Don't you have any manors ?
When you basicly say "fuck you fanboys" in your signature, you seriously cant expect to be treated with silk glows in the middle of fanboy town.

Some of these additudes bring a lot of cloudy disturbance to the discussion. See, most of you have some good points, it just doesnt go through because of these additudes.

Im sort of in the middle here. First I just would like to figure out whats going on, so that I can adjust to it. And I do get bad timing/muddy trancients from time to time on the heavy sort of projects, without doing anything extreme really. Its more that it adds up over time. The kick might be a tiny bit off sync with the hats. Then later on a send delay might be a bit off sync with the snare. Later there is even more with new automation. Right there and then you dont realy care, but in the final stages of the composition, if you listen for it, you might be supriced! The more trancients are off each others timing, the mudier the end mix.

I will do some research on my own when I get some time. For now, with those spesific projects its rescue operation. Only 2 out of 20 projects of mine were bad, and they all are sort of heavy loaders with multiple lanes of automation on each track. So its not a huge problem to me, but a small to medium one. Heres the thing: I might do more then 2 compressors on many tracks, because of kick ducking, snare ducking, and also normal compression. On heavy track loads you might need heavy side chaining aka ducking to make it all work together. I use a sort of channel strip rack on all tracks, with eq8, limiter, auto pan and auto filter. Then a rack with 2 side chained gates and the kick and the snare sidechain compressors. Usually not a problem.. But when all this stuf gets automated, then send effects automated, then new plugs in between, in the end.. It might turn out a bit of a trainwreck. I guarante you would not want to release it like this!

Im not saying my workflow is perfect, far from it, and its constantly evolving! I will build a new tighter latency centric template workflow with live 9. But for now im at the final stages of an album, 3 years in the process, and I cant really change to much this late. Whats done is done. Just get the timing right, and out the door to mastering. New problems, new lessons, new knowledge, learn, improve, evolve, become happy, move on ->
Yes I know it is provocative and at the first look it seems I am the one who started this.

See thru all the posted comments here on this thread.
You'll see who started being rude and badly treated people who started to comment about problems with PDC.
Many of them received harsh comments from those"Fanboys" who think they can bully people around here.
When you look how they act on other threads with other people, you'll see the same pattern over and over again.

I never had problems with bully's, I was always able to make them good or become good.
In one way or the other...
I just never pull back and let them win !
They can't beat me mentally or physically.
I stay calm and never loose my words like they do.
Sometimes I am provocative, but not in rage..., and not by using words or swearing.
It's just childish and shows a level of helplessness doing that. I am not helpless !

Many of these guys are sworn defenders at all cost and someone,, not only me, criticizing
Live is always a threat to them. They show that and comment this way.
All readable in many comments inside this thread.
You can read how they attacked others in this thread and in others before and later.

I gave them just something to bite on, with my signature of those Fanboy-Sheeps.
It just fits and say's with one picture the whole truth.
The reactions came as expected ! No surprise on that point for me... :roll:

I won't back up from those bully's, but I'm open to have a clean cut and go back to a
respectful way of discussion. If I see it's not working, I just reply as I see fit.
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Re: LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

Post by Tone Deft » Sat Dec 22, 2012 7:10 pm

no, you're being a bully to Ableton. you're rude, ill-mannered and still don't understand the topic at hand.

edit - at the end of the day fuck Ableton, they're just a corporation, they need to give us a good product. while you think you're being annoying to them you're just annoying the forum. some of you put waaaaay to much importance on yourselves and this forum. you're not special, you're just another asshole to them.
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Re: LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

Post by ze2be » Sat Dec 22, 2012 7:38 pm

We are all beautifull in gods eyes. Its just that us humans cant resist being dicks to each other. We are pack monkies and instinctivly (unconciously) still pull ranks. If we take a step back and look at humans as we do with animals, were all pretty cute actually. Our mothers says to us when were kids: "I dont care who started it, just stop it and move on!".

Most of these bullys have been arround here a long time. Ive been here a long time too. They are actually a lot nicer or lets say normal, then you might think. Likely they are just fed up with certain things being repeated into infinity, and in the end its like grumpy. Likewise theres realy no point being insulted or provoced by those behaviours. It will only lead to more drama, as any drama fight would naturally. Be sincerely polite and most anyone would listen. Little tip from old me.

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Re: LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

Post by leisuremuffin » Sat Dec 22, 2012 7:44 pm

ze2be wrote:
leisuremuffin wrote:ze2be:

see, you sound like a rational person. And i can feel your pain. What you're describing though, are bugs beyond the scope of just the problem with the current behavior of live's PDC. If you have audio elements going out of time, that is a serious bug. Automation won't affect where the audio is coming in, only where the parameter change caused by the automation is coming in. Also, the tempo based effects issue is just for that effects relation to the clock. If you experience snares or kicks moving around in time, that is a serious problem that i haven't experienced and that is beyond what the acknowledged shortcomings of how live works.


The audio side of lives compensation works perfect in most situations. i use multiple instances of parallel compression on multiple returns for different groups in pretty much every track i write. This has never resulted in any timing problems for me. Where it won't compensate on returns, is in feedback path, which you can check for yourself very quickly. --->put 3 compressors on a return track set the threshold super high, turn off makeup, make the ratio 1:1 so they aren't really doing anything to the signal and you can hear the transients clearly as they are unaffected. turn the lookahead all the way up to 10ms on all three. now send audio from a track to that return. Do you hear any phasing? you shouldn't, i don't when i do it here in my studio. OK, now enable the send for itself on the return you put the compressor on and turn it up creating a feedback loop. Now you will clearly hear the 30ms delay not being compensated because it would be impossible for the program to do so in the feedback path.


now in the scenario i describe above, if you automate the compressor effect on the send, that automation will be 30ms off. And, yes, if you put a tempo based effect after the compressors it's tempo information will be 30ms off. Those situations are far from ideal, but aren't what you're describing when you say, "my kick is a tiny bit off sync." that's a whole other can of worms, and if you're experiencing that, you are experiencing a serious bug beyond the admitted behavior of live's PDC.

ok, back to my morning coffee and critter care and then to make some music with live!

.lm.
Yeah, guess I know about all that already. Btw I didnt mean unstable timing, I just meant to say that if the snare is 5ms off, and hats are 11ms off, and sends are 7ms off, and it keeps on going like this when you add stuf, the sum off the transients hitting at the same time sounds increasinly muddy as you add stuf.

I need to test each situation proparly to say exact where it happens. I know about the send feedback. But I get it also on sends with racks filled with pararel chains. And some 3rd party plugs here and there.

Ps. Sorry for shallow repply, im at my "day job" on iphone ;) Ill be back with more tests after cristmas.

uhm, ok, but none of that should be happening. live 8's pdc for the alignment of audio works correctly, it's only automation and clock for tempo based effects that is not compensated. That's what i'm trying to say, if any of your audio events are somehow out of sync, that's a bug beyond live's current expected behavior.




simpli.cissimus :

No one is bullying you. You simply have an unrealistic expectation of how people are going to react to your behavior. you're not "provocative," you're an asshole. I'm not the "sworn defender" of any product or ideal, i just don't react well to being insulted over and over again by someone who barely knows what they're talking about. If you want to be treated with respect, don't be a dick. And i'm sorry if you are so offended by "swearing" and words. That is simply how I talk to everyone, i'm from fucking New Jersey and the year is 2012, i'm pretty sure everyone can read the word "fuck" without blushing.
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Re: LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

Post by Tone Deft » Sat Dec 22, 2012 7:45 pm

we all have more in common with each other than we do with most of the people in our daily lives. we all love music and audio, to the point infinite frustration at times.

note: if there was a god we'd have solid PDC.
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Re: LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

Post by leisuremuffin » Sat Dec 22, 2012 7:50 pm

Tone Deft wrote:we all have more in common with each other than we do with most of the people in our daily lives. we all love music and audio, to the point infinite frustration at times.

note: if there was a god we'd have solid PDC.

There must be a God, because I have no problem using Ableton Live 8 to create and perform music in its current state. Of course I should have told everybody that i bless my computer with holy water before each session.


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Re: LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

Post by Tone Deft » Sat Dec 22, 2012 7:57 pm

turns out god is nice to Athests too.
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Re: LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

Post by jbone1313 » Sat Dec 22, 2012 8:06 pm

Tone Deft wrote:note: if there was a god we'd have solid PDC.
That is correct.
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Re: LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

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Re: LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

Post by stoersignal » Sat Dec 22, 2012 11:20 pm

i don`t get it. this whole "you`re a fanboy so shut up" attitude. what`s a fanboy? maybe i understand it wrong because i`m not a native english speaker but i guess a fanboy is something like a guy who likes ableton because he thinks its trendy and cool (or whatever) and he thinks that if he/she uses it he/she is cool too......
but do you really think users like this exist?
i think those so called fanboys are just people like me who love ableton because it supports their creative process better than any other applications. i came from logic and long time before i started with rebirth and fruityloops2 :-) and before that i played guitar in several bands. i always had fun making music/producing/performing but never so much like with ableton and the biggest point for me: i never finished so much stuff like now with ableton.
yes, i know! ableton live is far from perfect and there are loads of bugs, but i can find my way through very easily and i know that the developers at ableton are doing their best and i can`t believe that we are just assholes for them like tone deft said.
i think they know what we mean to them. we are their customers, they make a living out of us.
I´m sure that they do the best they can, but maybe some problems are more complicated to solve than you would expect.

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Re: LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

Post by simpli.cissimus » Sat Dec 22, 2012 11:23 pm

Tone Deft wrote:no, you're being a bully to Ableton. you're rude, ill-mannered and still don't understand the topic at hand.

edit - at the end of the day fuck Ableton, they're just a corporation, they need to give us a good product. while you think you're being annoying to them you're just annoying the forum. some of you put waaaaay to much importance on yourselves and this forum. you're not special, you're just another asshole to them.
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Re: LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

Post by petit nuage » Sun Dec 23, 2012 3:36 pm

:lol: peace guys ...

maybe im a bit anal about timing and phase but somewhere it should concerns every live user .

i love LIVE but im not a blind guy, and even less a deaf person ...so its not about fanboy or hater just : concerned people or not concerned /unlucky/lucky :wink:
its about TIMING and then SOUND ..so its normal that some customers are a bit angry, because, apparently live 8 should already have a full pdc/adc included .
so we are just asking ableton to have this FULL PDC for live 8 and 9.

i dont want to spend one euro in other competitors because for me live is the best (almost :wink: ) and my only one daw since version 4 .
but i dont want to wait 3 more years, being paranoid a bout timing and sound and to use complex or boring workarounds, losing little by little the spontaneity and the magic workflow that i had .

so its a bit problematic for me ...because i have to choose between workflow and sound . :|
workflow is live best argument and good sound and timing are just sine qua non ...

i hope you understand me well cause im not here to moan, bitch, whine etc...this is criticism yes, but CONSTRUCTIVE !!!
sincerely i hope ableton considers seriously to solve this issue for live 8/9 .

this would be so restful for ableton and for us to put an end to this endless live's muddy sound debate ..and to finally ..open a new era . ahhhh :)
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Re: LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

Post by leisuremuffin » Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:03 pm

petit nuage wrote::lol: peace guys ...

maybe im a bit anal about timing and phase but somewhere it should concerns every live user .

i love LIVE but im not a blind guy, and even less a deaf person ...so its not about fanboy or hater just : concerned people or not concerned /unlucky/lucky :wink:
its about TIMING and then SOUND ..so its normal that some customers are a bit angry, because, apparently live 8 should already have a full pdc/adc included .
so we are just asking ableton to have this FULL PDC for live 8 and 9.

i dont want to spend one euro in other daw because for me live is the best (almost :wink: ) daw and its my only one daw since live 4 .
but i dont want to wait 3 more years, being paranoid a bout timing and sound and to use complex or boring workarounds, losing little by little the spontaneity and the magic workflow that i had .

so its a bit problematic for me ...because i have to choose between workflow and sound . :|
workflow is live best argument and good sound and timing are just sine qua non ...

i hope you understand me well cause im not here to moan, bitch, whine etc...this is criticism yes, but CONSTRUCTIVE !!!
sincerely i hope ableton considers seriously to solve this issue for live 8/9 .

this would be so restful for ableton and for us to put an end to this endless live's muddy sound debate ..and to finally ..open a new era . ahhhh :)


guess what?
PDC will work the same way it works now in live 9.
No amount of finger pointing and name calling, or even rational discussion will change it.

live with it or move on to another app.

I am also concerned that people seem to misunderstand this issue. When you talk about audio being out of sync, that is just wrong, that is not the case with how live behaves right now in version 8. automation and the clock of tempo synched effects are not compensated, that is all. live isn't moving your snare forward or back because you added an effect to it's track. if it is, you've found a bug.



also, nothing will ever end the "muddy sound" debate. a great deal of people are extremely convinced that their opinion is truth and will never change it.



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Re: LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

Post by petit nuage » Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:17 pm

re-post : http://forum.renoise.com/index.php?/top ... n-renoise/


i ve post and said that before: not long ago, i ve discovered in this cytomic post that a plug can create latency which is hard to compensate by the host .
but i was thinking naively that, at least, live's native plugs were programmed to be perfectly compensated in hq modes, at 44khz .

im not a programmer , plug's expert or , just a musician/producer if im wrong, ok, i would accept it without any problems .

we are all ok for pdc automation and clock of tempo synched effects...
its just that when i see that bitwig will implement it and full for its first version ... im a bit irritated :evil:
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Re: LIVE 9 : PDC IMPROVED OR NOT ?

Post by leisuremuffin » Sun Dec 23, 2012 5:28 pm

ok, but what they're talking about in that link is not live specific... and also according to source in this thread is fixed in 9 for the EQ8. so if that's your wish, than you got it for live 9.

so what do you want?




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