Re: [microsound] building blocks

[ndkent <ndkent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having used Acid, Live and some of the alternatives...

Acid has a name that would never impress high-brow types.

You see a whole lot of people using Live and having few serious 
complaints. That puts it high on the list for new people to check out.  
People don't switch their more or less primary software unless there is 
truly limiting and annoying fault or an extremely seductive feature 
only found in something else.

Radial - what is compelling about it?  It gets your attention with the 
interface design and by coming from Cycling '74 - anything else? I 
tried the demo which seems okay, Some people I'm sure would call the 
feature set focused, and it may be if it's those features are the only 
features you need to use.


LLOOPP - the price is certainly attractive, no reason not to check it 
out. It's a much more experimental and perhaps cryptic as a tool. While 
it certainly loops, I'd think the initial raison d'etre for Acid was 
tempo matching multiple beat-based loops - and LLOOPP doesn't have the 
facility. As a tool for experimental music - live or not live - it gets 
very high ratings from me. It's just very far from being a primary tool 
to use on commercial tracks. Hint:   I'm sure it would be much more 
popular if it had clear and easy to follow  getting started tools.  It 
is very baffling unless you have someone who knows it sitting next to 
you... and it still might be baffling with patchcord-less module 
connections and abbreviations.

nick
http://technopop.info/ndkent/


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