


It's also the easiest to interface with silent way's entire suite but I wish Reason had all the silent way plugins instead of just the voice controller. If I want samples to change pitch when I play them on a keyboard but want to preserve the transients Live makes that easier on me than any way I've found so far. I like it better for arranging/rearranging than any other DAW. You can quickly set up a midi keyboard to trigger stems. Live feels like a bigger version of that to me which is probably why it's a standard in live performance now. In the past I relied on an MPC and a looper for all my audio. (I wouldn't exactly call kyma a DAW and I'm guessing you don't have kyma) Some DAWs do the same exact thing, some DAWs do things more intuitively, some DAWs can't send sysex messages through their midi tracks without ClyphX. I've never found a DAW that did everything. I tend to do mastering/post-production stuff in Sound Forge Pro though. I like it well enough that even when I'm not sequencing anything, just recording drones or generative patches or live playing, I still use it for recording. The very few times I add live percussion or fretless bass, I do it in short loops or even single notes (I'm not great on bass anyway ). (They do plan to have a solution for this eventually, but they don't want to mess up the drum machine paradigm.) I generally don't multitrack my hardware synths, don't deal with vocals etc. Any audio tracks you want to run in parallel with it need to be divided into patterns. It has some limitations - the big one is there are no audio tracks separate from the pattern/scene hierarchy. It doesn't have any specific support for CV - I use a CV.OCD, and have a Microbrute connected via USB and a 0-Coast via MIDI. I always use it standalone rather than hosting it in some other DAW. Yup, I use it for sequencing the modular as well as VST synths and samples. Starthief wrote:I just couldn't get into either Live or Bitwig any of the times I've tried them.Īlways been curious about maschine but I've never seen it in action, do you use it with the modular?ĭevslashnull wrote:Always been curious about maschine but I've never seen it in action, do you use it with the modular? Try some other things if you can just to make sure you're not missing out, but if you hate them, go back to what works. The UI had a few issues as the thing grew by accretion, and when I switched to Maschine it just felt better overall. with it instead of the trance and hiphop everyone thought it was somehow locked into. It was perfectly capable, thanks, and there was nothing stopping me from making dark ambient, powernoise, experimental etc. Aka "that toy" which also wasn't a real DAW. But I also recorded 120 of my own tracks last year, 89 so far in 2017, and several dozen before that, and I can tell you that the workflow suits me just fine.īefore that I used FL Studio. I did two remixes on it last year that ran into occasional unnecessary awkwardness, but I got through them. Some people say "it's not a real DAW" - and perhaps for some types of projects it's not ideal. I just couldn't get into either Live or Bitwig any of the times I've tried them.
