Re: [microsound] ableton live

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on 9/26/04 8:26 PM, Anthony Saunders at anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> it seems to me to be a great mistake of elitism to dismiss live as
> merely being an interactive art piece from Monolake that allows others
> to sound exactly like them.
> 
> it's an intuitive, highly efficient piece of software that makes
> improvising with pre-recorded audio exceptionally easy. I haven't taken
> the plunge into Live 4 yet, but what fiddling I've done with the midi
> tools in the demo suggest that they've also managed to do the same for
> midi controlled virtual instruments.
> 
> This has freed up thousands of creative people from having to struggle
> with these mundane questions of how to perform computer music in a live
> setting, and instead focus on creating more personal things, whether it
> is new instruments in reaktor or max/msp patches, or simply working on
> melodies and compositions, etc.
> 
> Now, it's not perfect, but it's flexible enough that it's intensely
> useful for all sorts of computer music, from gabber to jungle to
> microsound.
> 
> Anthony
> 
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Yep Live is great, if only the "nice folks" over at cycling74 would put a
little more effort into Radial :(


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