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Wanted to start a thread on using other software with ableton.

I personally start with adobe audition and sequence all my drum loops and manipulate different waveforms (guitar, bass, vocals etc). I then import the different loops in to ableton for final sequencing and synth loops.

I use Audacity to work some wav files, normally ripped vocals or other bits from DVDs etc. Aside from that I only use Live as my DAW, though various third party plug-ins are added

Reason and Pro Tools 7 until my daughter broke my dongle! M-powered.

I use both Reason and Live 6 at the time as slaves with PTs7 as the master.

For some reason(pardon the pun) i prefer the sound coming out of PTs i also find the eqs better in PTs. More ability to fine tune frequecies by numbers exactly as i want them. I prefer digits to graphs. Unlike the eq3 and 8

I didnt own the instruments for live at the time and was using demo instruments.

I could craft the sound in Live and Reason, then record it into PTs which enabled me to save and render, which i couldnt do in Live demo mode as u all kno!!

A great way to work on a budget as Live is pretty darn expensive compared to entry level DAWs. Way more expensive than Pro Tools Rtas systems.

I rewire Live into Logic (7 at the moment, about to upgrade)

You can't beat Logic for midi programming and automation (imo) and obviously there are a lot of excellent plugin synths and effects (and of course sidechain compression) at your fingertips.

reaktor, plogue, vdmx, quartz composer..

although at risk of sounding like a complete noob, I generally create my drum loops in FL Studio 7 and import the .wavs into live.
I just find it easier, personally.

I use Live with Reason and Cubase 4, I use Audacity as my sample editor.

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techitch91 wrote:although at risk of sounding like a complete noob, I generally create my drum loops in FL Studio 7 and import the .wavs into live.
I just find it easier, personally.

Whateva works for ya mate. All gd.

Live is just as easy, probably more friendlier than FL imo, once u get used to it.

The hotswap is cool as well as just dragging samples into an empty Impulse.

Start in Logic or Live, switch back and forth, for various strong points.
Once a song has a verse chorus break type complexity to it, re-arranging it in Live is much quicker, when editing MIDI Logic is miles above Live.
I usually have two versions going in Live and Logic. I don't use rewire. Just a preference, like keeping things MIDI and virtual instrument for as long as I can. For this reason I've veered away from Logic's instruments.

DSP Quattro as a two track editor. Though Sound Track Pro is beating it in many ways... (you can use Logic's convolution reverb with it.)

techitch91 wrote:although at risk of sounding like a complete noob, I generally create my drum loops in FL Studio 7 and import the .wavs into live.
I just find it easier, personally.

I do this at times as well. I run XP in parallels on my macbook pro just so i can take FLStudio7 with me. after spending 7 years with the software, it's hard to let it go regardless of how sweet live is. and they work great together just how you mentioned. flstudio is still to this day my favorite step sequencer.

I use Reason 3 in ReWire slave mode. It works pretty well with Live 5, 6 and 7. I like the idea to be able to merge instruments and effects from Reason and Live as they sound very different in my opinion. I'm also happy with Subtractor, Maelstrom, Dr.Rex and Combinator as I don't have the equivalence in Live (well, this may be not true with Dr.Rex since Live 7 exists).

The big thing I have to complain about with Live 7 is the fact that - at the moment - an "External Instrument" routed to a Reason device can't automate its MIDI parameters directly. There is no escamotable MIDI panel with horizontal faders in External Instrument like the one you get when you create a VST instrument. There is neither any popup menu in arrange view that allows me to record and draw automation curves routed to my Reason devices. If I want to automate let's say the cutoff frequency of a Subtrator synth from Live, I must draw the automation curves by hand in the envelope panels of MIDI clips! This is quite boring and inefficient... Grrr!

Maybe I missed something?

Ten Square wrote:escamotable

eh?

sxezskoz wrote:

Ten Square wrote:escamotable

eh?

Sorry, I'm french and my English is not perfect... I meant a "folding" panel or a panel that you can mask... Hope it is a better translation for the word I was looking for

Ten Square wrote:

sxezskoz wrote:

Ten Square wrote:escamotable

eh?

Sorry, I'm french and my English is not perfect... I meant a "folding" panel or a panel that you can mask... Hope it is a better translation for the word I was looking for

and here i was thinking i just wasnt advanced enough to know what that was