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Re: Revisiting Ableton Live, now with Max4Live



On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 1:12 PM,  <buzap@gmx.net> wrote:
> to me, the whole Max4Live thing seems pointless as long as the Live API 
> doesn't support full clip manipulation (i.e. delete clips).
>
> I want to arrange/manipulate loops, not create fancy effects.


I see your point - but I'm not sharing it since I don't even record
clips in Live. I use Mobius to record, arrange and manipulate.

My use of Ableton Live is rather minimal, but for what I use it for it
works great. That is when I need to pull off playback of canned audio
together with live playing, typically in a surround live installation
setup.

I'm talking about running Live as the sync master, because in my world
Live totally fails following tempo sync. Not slagging it, I just stay
away from doing that now when I know it isn't working (it's not that
its crashing like before v.8 but rather that audio artifacts are
introduced in the slave position)  - but as said, I think Live is
great for one particular purpose. And if they ever fix the slave sync
issue I would immediately start using it as a slave host for Mobius
only because the M4L thing is so exciting. As an example, today
someone shared  M4L device that lets you snag a slice of live audio
input and hack it up with granulation tools (that can of course be
handled by expression pedals etc). Isn't that fun!

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen