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Re: Revisiting Ableton Live, now with Max4Live



Hi Louie,

The sync update of Live happened long ago. It doesn't help for the
audio artifacts that appears in slave sync mode. Maybe I should have
called it "a fidelity issue" instead? ;-)

To repeat: when running Live synced to MIDI clock a lot of changes you
do by external MIDI control creates cracks and pops in the audio. I
didn't want that so I moved on to set up the same rig in Biule. It
worked fine (better actually) until the very last stage where Bidule
just crashed (maybe a memory issue?). Finally I built the same rig in
Mainstage 2.2 yesterday and it is turned out to be the best
application for my needs (which is extensive Mobius live looping,
setting the temp by first loop catching in Mobius, host application
following Mobius' tempo by internal (IAC Bus) MIDI Clock. Host loaded
with lots of tempo dependent effects, a synth channel, two mono audio
inputs, a stereo audio inputs and two effect aux tracks with
"playable" effects.)

That's my general bare bones report that I hope will help some folks
to spend less time in the tech pit and more time making music.

Greetings from Sweden

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



On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Louie Angulo
<louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote:
> hey Per there seems to be an Ableton update that addresses the sync
> problem,how it working now slaved to mobius? any better?
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, I wouldn't think you'd have to emulate that. Ableton Live and
>> Mobius seem to be almost identical when it comes to recording and
>> stacking up alternative sets of loops on several parallel tracks.
>>
>> Differences are that Live can not overdub and multiply into the same
>> loop (like Mobius) and Mobius won't make you manually change the order
>> of the loops once they are recorded (as you can do in Live).
>>
>> I spent yesterday recreating my live looping setup based on Mobius as
>> the tempo sync master in the new Mainstage 2.2 and it worked out
>> exceptionally well. During almost a month work in Live it felt like a
>> wonderful revelation to be back on the super fidelity that MS
>> provides! I have no idea why but my stuff sounds so much better when
>> piped out through Mainstage, guessing there must be something about
>> how the compressors work and how the audio engine handles summing of
>> audio streams. And the new multi CPU/core support was evident as a
>> seemingly never ending DSP power. But it seems you need to re-build MS
>> concerts from scratch in 2.2 to get it right and the trick to make the
>> new multi core handling happen is to keep CPU intensive channelstrips
>> without any cross talking like side-chaining or sending audio through
>> a bus to an aux that also receives audio sent from other
>> channelstrips. That is the same logic as in how you set up big
>> projects in Bidule, but while you have to assign objects manually in
>> Bidule to be taken care of by another CPU/core this is automatic in MS
>> 2.2. Missing Max 4 Live though, because I could set up great "swell
>> pedal" functionality with M4L "audio amplitude envelope follow to data
>> control" devises. An option totally lacking in MS (if not using a
>> third-party plugin like Amplitube 3 that has a good swell pedal
>> simulation, but to me both Sticks and guitars sound more interesting
>> without such tube amp/cab simulation. Well you can actually cheat up a
>> rather lame swell pedal in Mainstage by using the Envelope plugin, but
>> it's kind of somewhere on a scale between half-assed and luke warm).
>> So if someone can recommend an Audio Unit plugin that applies "swell
>> attack" to the audio signal I'd be grateful for hint ;-)
>>
>> Greetings from Sweden
>>
>> Per Boysen
>> www.perboysen.com
>> http://www.youtube.com/perboysen
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Buzap Buzap <buzap@gmx.net> wrote:
>>> Hi Per
>>>
>>> fair enough, esp. if you use Max4Live as a crazy effect tool ;-)
>>>
>>> Personally, I actually would like to use Ableton for both live looping 
>>> and recording. But at the moment it's just not flexible enough.
>>> So what I end up doing is emulating Ableton clip/scene behaviour in 
>>> Mobius. Oh well...
>>>
>>> best regards
>>> Buzap
>>>
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>>
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