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Ableton Live Workflow...

Dan Bozek

Dan Bozek

Aug 3, 2011
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Pittsburgh, PA
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Justin: I'm really getting excited playing around with Live and Max for Live and I think I'm going to start using it more and more in my productions, starting first by experimenting on my own and then with clients when I have a better feel for what I can do for them with it on the clock, etc...

I have a few ideas of some workflows that'll accomplish some cool things in conjunction with what we're already doing with Pro Tools and our analog gear, but I'd be curious to read about what you usually do. Tracking to Live, tracking to something else, editing and then importing into Live, ReWire, combining everything, etc... It seems like there are a lot of different ways you can go about doing it--especially if you have Live running on a separate computer system which I don't have currently...

If you have some time to write and wanna get geeky, please go for it!!
 
#2
I don't really have a template, all my projects are so different. I use Live a lot as an external instrument on my laptop, regardless of project. Synth/Max hosting, audio out into my PT rig. But sometimes I demo out stuff in Live exclusively, sometimes I never touch it. I'm trying not to do anything too predictable/habitual.
 
#3
jmjbassplayer said:
I don't really have a template, all my projects are so different. I use Live a lot as an external instrument on my laptop, regardless of project. Synth/Max hosting, audio out into my PT rig. But sometimes I demo out stuff in Live exclusively, sometimes I never touch it. I'm trying not to do anything too predictable/habitual.
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Like!! Good. Seems dumb, but your comment makes me think that I'm looking at it all in a good way as a relative n00b. Such a unique tool. And uniquely hands on for software...

My lappy died in January and I went Mac mini to save a little dough since I mainly travel with the tablet these days, but now I'm wishing I got a laptop so I could bring another computer with Live to the studio. Oh well. It's all good. Really excited about Live though. I think we're gonna have a good run of things!! I'll share when there is something to share.
 
#4
Dan,

I know I'm not JMJ, but here are my two cents. ; )

Live is a great master to slave other devices too. I've used it in my studio environment to sync up an mp-7, dx-7, kurzweil k2k and a sequential circuits TOM. I'm a Logic/Motu kind of guy and it has interfaced nicely with my hd and software setup. On the software side, I run a lot of plugins in logic and absynth, LeSynth and some of the Moog synths. Live also seamlessly integrates nicely with kaoss pads running into filterbanks!

I've personally shied away from PT, because of the lack of integration with a lot of third party plugins.

Again, just my two cents.

Benjamin
 

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