Re: How to go all Software with guitar multieffector and looper

[Mark Sottilaro <zerocrossing@gmail.com>]

It's more laziness on my account.  Live is like a fully formed machine
that you can make settings in, but it's fairly static.  Bidule is like
a box of legos that's nothing until you start putting blocks together.
 It's a totally modular environment.  More flexible, I'm sure but Live
appealed to my "here's a paradigm you already know" mind. For me, I
don't really want anything all that crazy.  I haven't found a thing
that I want that Live doesn't have built in and easily accessed.

Also, one of my first "ideas" was to stick with my G5/Digital
Performer set up and only use the XP laptop as a hardware looper
synced to it. Live was the only host that seemed to chase MIDI sync
well.  Bidule was one I tried and I can't remember why but it wasn't
happening.  I went though a lot of hosts.  Live was a clear winner.
It was only later that I started to realize how silly it was to split
things up between two machines and I stopped having the two synced to
each other pretty quickly. By that time I'd already invested in Live
with money and time, so there you are.  I did reevaluate it recently
to see if I was using the right tool for my needs and from what I
could find it is.

Mark

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:46 AM, andy butler<akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> 
wrote:
> Mark Sottilaro wrote:
>
>> I know Per likes Bidule, but although flexible it seemed like a lot of
>> work to get started,
>
> Would that be because it doesn't have a mixer "hard-wired" into it?
>
> Isn't that compensated by the complete lack of routing mysteries?
>
> just askin',
> I'd be interested to know.
>
> andy
>