On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Rob<lau@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nope, but if you are the next undiscovered John Williams and not a computer > scientist, what I'm seeing is that Ableton will probably get in your way > less than half a dozen loosely connected programs with few if any sensible > default settings and little to no way to save all their states at once with all due respect, if someone is the next undiscovered john williams then their choice of software is likely to play a large role in their "discovery". somebody like williams has a huge set of compositional skills that have absolutely nothing to do with software tools. moreover, what happens is someone is the next iannis xenakis or alternatively the next steve reich? actually, reich is probably a bad example, my guess it that he would have loved Live during the early part of his career. lets pick, say, gyorgy ligeti instead. do you seriously think that Live has anything whatsoever to offer such composers when compared to "academic" sound tools like CSound, SuperCollider or Pure Data? so as usual, it all depends on context. Live is a wickedly good program, created from a very great vision, and with very great skill. But its one program among many, one tool in a toolbox, and its not the answer to any and every music software problem. even one of its originators told me that if you were actually an audio engineer rather than a musician, and/or were doing straight tracking of live musicians, then although Live would work, it would probably not be the best tool choice. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
