Hi,
I'm an Acid user and I'm interested by Live.
Does anyone know both software and can compare them?
Are there some things Acid can do that Live can't?
Thx for your advice
Live vs Acid Pro?
I've got both, Live looks to me to have some advantages and some minor disadvantages.
I also have something called "Making Waves" which has a lot of features of Acid and Live, just not as intuitive or polished.
I'm not familiar with all the features of Acid and Live, so I may muddle up the naming of various items.
(i) Live has a track view like Acid, but you can also use a session view and record that way to tracks. Each track can have any sample you like unlike Acid.
(ii) MIDI input seems strangely unusable in Acid; in Live it's dead easy.
With Acid, if you drop in a midi track it asks you to save it somewhere; I find this whole area strangely cumbersome and counter-intuitive. With Live, you create a Midi track, drop an instrument on it, add samples (if necessary) and effects.
(iii) I like the way Live stacks effects in a chain across a window. Acid does this by showing a chain of FX but not the actual details all at once like Live does.
(iv) I'm not clear if Live's sample stretching abilities are as good as Acid. Certainly everything I've dropped onto Acid has just worked, whereas I've heard a few funnies in Live.
(v) Acid can render to a wide range of formats; Live can only output WAV or AIF - also it seems to need to know how much to output, which Acid works out for you. I only tried this out in Live last night, so I maybe missing something here.
(vi) Acid can change tempo - I've seen this work yet whenever I try it myself it never seems to work!?! Live can too, though I only found that in the manual.
(vii) Live can alter things in real time; Acid does for some things, but adding FX seems to stop playback. You can then start it again, and fiddle - Live does this continuously.
To me Live seems better but I'm a mere novice at both. Maybe Acid will be updated and catch up?
Pete
I also have something called "Making Waves" which has a lot of features of Acid and Live, just not as intuitive or polished.
I'm not familiar with all the features of Acid and Live, so I may muddle up the naming of various items.
(i) Live has a track view like Acid, but you can also use a session view and record that way to tracks. Each track can have any sample you like unlike Acid.
(ii) MIDI input seems strangely unusable in Acid; in Live it's dead easy.
With Acid, if you drop in a midi track it asks you to save it somewhere; I find this whole area strangely cumbersome and counter-intuitive. With Live, you create a Midi track, drop an instrument on it, add samples (if necessary) and effects.
(iii) I like the way Live stacks effects in a chain across a window. Acid does this by showing a chain of FX but not the actual details all at once like Live does.
(iv) I'm not clear if Live's sample stretching abilities are as good as Acid. Certainly everything I've dropped onto Acid has just worked, whereas I've heard a few funnies in Live.
(v) Acid can render to a wide range of formats; Live can only output WAV or AIF - also it seems to need to know how much to output, which Acid works out for you. I only tried this out in Live last night, so I maybe missing something here.
(vi) Acid can change tempo - I've seen this work yet whenever I try it myself it never seems to work!?! Live can too, though I only found that in the manual.
(vii) Live can alter things in real time; Acid does for some things, but adding FX seems to stop playback. You can then start it again, and fiddle - Live does this continuously.
To me Live seems better but I'm a mere novice at both. Maybe Acid will be updated and catch up?
Pete
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Thx for your answer,
It coresponds to what I've found out searching previous posts of this forum. Live 4 seems to have passed out on upgrading its time-stretching, which would be a very big mistake.
It coresponds to what I've found out searching previous posts of this forum. Live 4 seems to have passed out on upgrading its time-stretching, which would be a very big mistake.
That's a big issue, nothing in the foreseable future anyway.Maybe Acid will be updated and catch up?