Live8 -- I can finally drop my other DAW's...

mholloway · Post by **mholloway** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:34 am

Seems like lots of folks here have 2+ DAWS they use......but does anyone here solely use Live? I'm ready to do just that -- which means dropping Cubase4 for mixing, etc. I do all my sequencing and vst instrument work in Session View these days (after which there is no going back to oldschool linear), and it's a royal pain to export files over to C4....and if there's one thing I've been learning these days, it's that Workflow is Everything. And to use just one DAW from start to finish, well.....that'd be awesome, for my needs anyway. and with Live8, Group tracks + multi-channel fader/etc changes will help a lot, plus we've got multiband comp and limiter coming.....all this, +my million VST's, I just can't see why i'd want to go anywhere else with a song/mix than just staying right in live. (oh and sample edit wise, Wavosaur rocks, and i love how Live will just pop it open for ya from the clip window....)

just thinking out loud, and curious if anyone else either has or will downsize to live8 as your sole workstation....
-M.

Pandamonium · Post by **Pandamonium** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:05 am

One word... COMPING. Which is a pain in the butt in Ableton compared to Logic and other DAWs.

Johnisfaster · Post by **Johnisfaster** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:55 am

I've got 'composing' and 'compressing' taking bids now who's in who's in?

Johnny Beat · Post by **Johnny Beat** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:04 am

I use Live only!

j2j · Post by **j2j** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:07 am

Rave wrote:what's comping please?

That's when you get into a party without paying for the cover charge.

In a sentence: I went to crash, and got comped by the promoter, cause he wanted my...

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:07 am

Johnisfaster wrote:I've got 'composing' and 'compressing' taking bids now who's in who's in?

compositing? As in compositing an audio stem from audio takes

On the original topic, I only use Live, for production, mixing, "mastering".

mholloway · Post by **mholloway** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:26 am

well according to wikipedia -- "In a standard jazz combo, the pianist or guitarist typically comps during the horn and double bass solos by improvising chords and improvised countermelodies."

but how that relates to life in the DAW world is uh.........beyond me. though how cubase or logic would be better for "improvising" than live is also, yes, beyond me.

anyway the guy might as well have said, "one word - smuckholing" for all Comping means to me.

mkelly · Post by **mkelly** » Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:39 am

An example of comping in Logic Pro 8:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=d-EkllhYAbA

Though in response to Pandamonium, yeah, it's not as easy to comp in Live but it's still doable. Grouping tracks and automation curves in Live 8 should help, if I've understood properly what's coming.