[microsound] microsound Digest, Vol 1, Issue 8

[CraqueMat]

Yes, you need to make sure you're not 'quantizing' the 
sound/sample/phrase in Live when you place it.

One of my biggest peeves about Live was the way things sound choppy if 
you don't do this.

David Powers wrote:
> Are you sure you are playing the soundfile 'unwarped' and raw? Live
> tends to try and warp files if you just drop them in, which certainly
> will add artifacts to the sound.
> 
> Anyway the granular synth engine is in some ways the point, it's those
> very artifacts that make it an interesting tool for more experimental
> or microsound works. You can do an insane amount of repitching and
> stretching.
> 
> I like to use Live with Pure Data, as a VST host mostly, sometimes
> triggering little audio files too. This works nice for generative
> stuff where I'm not doing raw DSP but just using various synthesizers
> and fx (raw DSP isn't my forte)...
> 
> ~David
> 
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Marinos Koutsomichalis
> <marinos at agxivatein.com> wrote:
>> I was wandering,
>>
>> what about sound ??
>>
>> The whole convertation regarding Live focuses on certain features and
>> capabilities of this DAW in comparison with others available. Ok, but
>> what about its sound??
>>
>> Just try this: take a soundfile open in with logic, or with DP or
>> with .. and with Live and just play it back... Do you hear the same
>> thing ?? I don' t !
>>
>> I was curious of what do you think about Live' s engine... Because I
>> don' t think that (at least up to version 7) it is as good as (let' s
>> see) Logic, DP, cubase, Nuedo, or Wavelab to name a few.... Let aside
>> version 6 ....... Well I have to admit that it is not that bad in
>> version 7 as in version 6, but when you just want to do some basic
>> collages or mixing or sth that can easily be done with any of the
>> aforementioned DAWs, why stick with Live since its sound-engine is
>> (at least to my ears) inferior ??
>>
>> On 20 Ιαν 2009, at 9:02 ΜΜ, Neil Clopton wrote:
>>
>>> Graham Miller wrote:
>>>> there's really no point to using live if
>>>> you are going to constrain yourself to the arrange window only.
>>> might as
>>>> well use logic, etc.  the whole (revolutionary) point of ableton
>>> is the
>>>> session view, imho.
>>>
>>> Session view is a huge distinguishing feature, but I wouldn't say
>>> there is no point to the rest of Live.  I use warping from the
>>> arrangement view all the time.  SFAIK there isn't anything quite
>>> like warp markers in other software.
>>>
>>> -Neil
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