RE: Ableton Live attention Per Boyson

["Michael Stauffer" <michael@circular-logic.com>]

>From: Per Boysen [mailto:per@boysen.se]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 5:59 PM
>To: Loopers
>Subject: Re: Ableton Live attention Per Boyson
>
>
>On 04-04-20 22.52,  "CM" <listmail@asyouthink.com> wrote:
>
>> I understand the layering /
>> overdubbing "plus" of the Repeater vs. the single-pass
>recording on Live,
>> and the multiple-tracks-in-parallel "plus" of Abletonn; but
>are their any
>> other pros / cons to consider?
>
>
>The Repeater is discontinued while Live keeps improving with
>every update.
>At the moment Live is running much more CPU efficient on a
>windows machine
>than on a Mac. This is supposed to change though, as Ableton is now
>optimizing the code for Macintosh Altivec routines.
>
>Another important difference is storage capacity. With the
>Repeater you can
>reverse audio files, which Live can not yet do. The Repeater
>will let you
>manipulate pitch by external midi (for example by using an
>expression pedal)
>and this is not yet implemented into Live.

There's a cool VST plug-in effect that works with Live: SupaTrigga (I
think maybe I heard about it on this list, actually?).
http://bram.smartelectronix.com/ (scroll down). It allows you to slice up
a sample into a number of slices (or just 1 big slice) and do stuff like
reverse the slices, or skip them arbitrarily, or slow them down. Good
fun. It's been a little bit since I looked at it, but I'm pretty sure it
can be setup to consistently reverse a sample. Since it's VST, its params
can be controlled by midi controllers via Live.

I'd like to see Live allow its sample parameters to be assigned to midi
controllers, so things like pitch manipulation would be possible with a
controller. Although maybe there's a VST plug that can be used to do that
already?

Cheers,
Michael