I have both licenses - just hate the damn dark GUI of Bitwig and hope a light skin comes soonish (unless I missed it)
Yeah the mono thing is odd in Ableton - makes little sense to me to have workarounds
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Hi Nauts!
Iāve got a question as a non-Ableton user (yet) :
I have a Digitakt, Digitone & Dreadbox Typhon.
Would Live Intro be a good enough start to start fiddling with Overbridge or will i be too limited by the track limit in Live Intro?
Thx in advance!
Not sure where this has been missed or not covered by others, but Freeze & Flatten is one button now.
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Very very nice, looking forward to this.
That is long overdue!
Two and a half years since Live 11 launched, pretty acceptable timeframe to me.
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For anyone who wants an overview of the changes from 11 to 12:
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actually, this link has all of the current changes, not only the highlights:
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ā¦meanwhile, i love bitwigs actually still kind of ālimitedā skin colour options and run it as dark as possibleā¦but that limitation will be just a question of time, i guessā¦
pretty positive, theyāll soon implement a few more switches to feel free to custumize the arranger/editor/grid backgrounds and one for fooling around with that orange main details colourā¦
when i left ableton behind, around suite 8, i was running live also in a blank black skin versionā¦
and i was sooooo happy, when apple, google, this forum and whatnot started to offer dark theme optionsā¦
ā¦around the same time i started to hate logics decision to fully comply to apple rules and become candy coloured all over the placeā¦
but hey, what do i know about coloursā¦i even run my iphone in plain black and white modeā¦
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this looks like a great one for recording external sources, it probably means that you can ditch the dual track setup for monitoring/recording:
A Keep Monitoring Latency in Recorded Audio option has been added to the
right-click(Win) /CTRL-click(Mac) context menu of the Monitor radio buttons for each track. This option is enabled by default, but when unchecked, recordings will have the same latency as if recorded with monitoring set to Off, regardless of which monitoring mode is selected.
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I do find the last logic update and Ableton live 12 interesting. The last logic added enough to be a new version, but it was a free update and Ableton 12 went the other route route and took what could have been a big update or two and made it a single new thing. Though I donāt think itās wrong, itās interesting how fast they went with this and if these new versions are now every 1.5/2 years from here on out. Even the upgrade price feels like a lot this soon after 11. I think the more confusing thing is the lack of any push 3 features or at least lack of notes on push 3 features. The big thing with push 3 was standalone and I felt like the next Ableton at the time would really lean on on some new features for the non standalone push. But that doesnāt seem to be the case
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Thatās great!
ā¦no worriesā¦this is the time to push the softwareā¦next time, itās time to push push againā¦
of course all ānewā midi tools will see their implementation to push3ā¦next year around this timeā¦
once they figured, how to loosen their functionalities from direct click handling only to a more universal solutionā¦
thatās just this dead end mess uāll end up, once u decided, ok from now on, we only add updates to our good old, once game changing core/concept, instead of truly implement them to the source in first placeā¦
an endless workaround cycle becomes ur daily coding businessā¦
itās all not that much fun, once ur number oneā¦
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the changes to the piano roll are great. rearranging the UI is super nice. lotās of quality of life stuff. seems a pretty awesome update. addition of global tuning scales called āScale Awarenessā is probably really awesome for people in places not using the 12 tone scaleā¦ and anyone who wants to make their own.
piano roll changes are huge really. .kinda caught up to FL Studioās piano roll a bit. the editing stuff, generative, chord generation, new quantization stuff.
overall looks good imoā¦ curious about all the new jamming stuff from 3rd party M4L devs.
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this video gets into the details. pretty exciting stuff.
word, iām too old and too busy for these timescales. As far as I remember Iāve made about three tunes since 11 came out forty five minutes ago.
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I understand exactly what you mean and Iām a little disappointed.
But I always think about all the people who donāt have or donāt want a Push. For them, the last ten years (man, have I gotten old) have not been rosy. Balance is the magic word. But the direction is right. Look at the new browser or the new UI with the mixer in the arrangement view. That alone makes me so happy.
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Theyāre quite different but can cover some of the same ground. The fact that you can address different frequency bands or stack them/use multiple instances is super flexible for sound design. Iāve tried a few things with it and it can subtle and more processing/colourisation nicely.
Iām hoping for new FX updates though for my heat+fx as other than live stuff, itās been getting less use recently with Roar.
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you will run out of tracks with just the separate tracks from one of the DT or DN.
BUTā¦
I dunno, you could just take the stereo from each and the Dreadbox out and itās still fun.
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thx for the reply!
iām very confused by the ā16 audio/MIDI track limitā
itās not like i can record the 8 digitakt tracks, 4 Digitone tracks & typhon track using Overbridge ?
Iām contemplating getting the AHFX for the tactile experience, but I have to admit itās harder to justify when most of it can be emulated in Live and more (order of drive/filter/shelves, serial/parallel chains, as many LFOs and Envelopes as one wants, etc).
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new solution sounds promising
but Iām fine with my solution Iām using since years:
monitoring on track is off but happens through a āexternal effectā
once I recorded I switch the external effect off (wich is mapped to a controller key)
that works totally reliable and easy to use