Re: komplete vs. ableton

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

After reading about how you work and your intentions I agree that it
seems as the NI stuff hosted in Bidule would become a very rewarding
setup for you. What you lose out on compared to Ableton is sequencing
capabilities. But you may do other cool things like setting up KOntakt
4 patches of multiple loops or wire up a bunch of that little step
sequencing group that comes with the latest Bidule upgrade. You may
work with tap tempo solutions in Kontakt or Bidule... or use Mobius to
set a tempo that Bidule fetches through the IAC Bus into a "MIDI Clock
To Sync" object that all other hosted plugins pick their tempo from.
Bidule is a wonderfully open system.

BTW, if you are into live sequencing you may also enjoy Numerology as
a host for the NI Komplete stuff. http://www.five12.com/

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com



On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:27 AM, james fowler <twostroke@gmail.com> wrote:
> "You can use Live’s instruments with other applications if they support
> ReWire"
>
> so when it says on ableton's site that:
>
> "collision requires ableton live 8 or higher"
>
> this is, in fact, not true?  it seemed to me that all of the programs 
>within
> live were proprietary.
>
> purchasing both ableton and komplete is not a financial option right now.
>
> anyhow, getting back to the meat and potatoes of the initial question:
>
> i'm running everything in bidule.  i think i mentioned this, but just to
> reiterate: i love bidule. it's bone-simple but deep enough once you start
> digging.  loads of options and i get along with it swimmingly.
>
> the sampler is of paramount importance.  i love sampling crap, 
>processing
> the shit out of it and then using it as it's own instrument.  so in that
> regard, kontakt is sorta critical.  i've been using short circuit but
> kontakt is approximately 4000 times better.
> i live fm and absynth and battery as well...the arpeggiator in fm is 
>pretty
> uninquel  i definitely prefer the pre-packaged sounds in komplete over 
>those
> offered by ableton.
>
> regarding live performance, most of what i do is done on-the-spot with 
>not a
> lot of sequence triggering or what-have-you.  i am (and have been) 
>leaning
> towards native instruments but wanted to see if anyone could dissuade me.
>
> - jim
>
>