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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Sergio G <simpliflying@gmail.com> wrote: > Can I with Ableton and some controller create a loop quickly, real time, > and > then overdub, undo, redo, create other loops, stop, restart, pause, > restart, > mute, time strech, pitch shift, effect, etc, with just ableton, quickly, > on > stage, no dead times? > And with Octa? That's a lot of questions! Have you read the manual for the two platforms and compared their feature sets and processing power with what you're planning to do? If you really plan to do all those things I would guess the Octa would work better. But if you are looking at electronic mash-up artists (for example Tim Exile, Squarepusher, Jamie Lidell) they all tend to specialize in avoiding certain actions that their platform of choice isn't well suited for. The hardest DSP is time-stretching and pitch-shifting. For audio already recorded on a drive that's not a big deal, but doing it in a live stream is kind of against the laws of physics - and here the most elegant cheater wins ;-). To make the comparison fair you also need to calculate on the cost of the audio interface the laptop will need. An interface that can give you as good sound as the Octa may cost more than half the price of the Octa. And you also have to think about the time needed to find and learn a controller and to set it up well with Live. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.perboysen.com http://www.youtube.com/perboysen