great for getting interesting polyrhythms on the go
I use ableton purely for chopping up breaks. I find it is great for this sort of thing. I just stick a single warp marker on the first hit of the beat, set it to repitch and then tweek the tempo so that it sounds right pitch wise at the speed Im going to be chopping it to. Then just drag the wav into the aranger and line up the hits by eye against the grid. You can pull back air from the start of 1 hit to plug gaps from the last hit if you have em etc. For me its the easiest way to do it as I can see whats going on. thats all I use ableton for though, either rewired or bouncing out.
Ableton is great for live performances, however IMO it isn't quite there yet for production. Things like the lack of audio editing and having to switch to the session view every time you want to do something simple such as changing the volume of a track make it very annoying to use.
All the mixer functions for each track are to the right in sequencer view and are colapsable via the M button to the bottom right so no need to keep switching between views.
they released that max for live thing innit
bit expensive though!
never used it for anything.
I just explained Ableton Live to my 60 year old dad in 20 minutes.. in ten minutes he recorded a bassline, some guitar riffs (and solo) and put a drum line on it ... This man can't even search google proper :-p Try doing that with any other (serious) DAW!
looks like 8.1.1 is only a stop-gap fix with it's own problems....... at least they're on the case! I bought into live on christmas eve and haven't installed it yet - I may wait for the next update
ive got a discount for owning lite whihc came free with my remote zero controller, and a 40 euro discount copun - can get the full live (not the suite ) for 179euros/about £150 quid - seriously tempted...
So whats the best way to chop beats? chop in session view or arrangement view? chop in session and slice to midi? or do you use the arrangement and then drop hits to impulse?