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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Live 7.0.1
Pros: Seems to have a lot of options for music creation
Cons: Freezes after about a minute. No sound and I could not fix with new/different sound drivers. Eats up CPU. FLstudio/Reason both work fine on my computer.
-note: I'm using an AMD athlon XP 1600+ (1.4 gh) with 512mb of Ram, so if you have anything less powerful than that, you'll probably have problems.
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4 stars
Version: Live 7.0.1
"Very intuitive and powerful tool to publish and to execute live performances"
Pros: More than a tool to record sound, Live is an application for live performances, which provides to total functionality to control in real time the parameters that other software. Definitively, Live revolutionized the form to edit, to compose and to execute music in addition to being very intuitive.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Live 7.0.1
"Better than any other recording software Ive tried"
Pros: I love how simple and fast it generally is to make music. Plus, its excellent quality sound. I've tried out Reason demos and Cakewalk, but this one is the best. I like how I can drag and drop clips from my comp directly to my destinated track. Lots of MIDI to explore and MIDI/Audio effects. Also, its nice being able to choose which tracks I want to have record on same as playback. This means I can record and hear what Im playing at the same time, or do whatever I want (this is not the same in Cakewalk).
Overall, its a great software.
Cons: Uses good amount of resources and is expensive $400 I believe. But you should get it if you want to do computer recording. If youre playing guitar or whatever into it, its very laggy unless you get ASIO driver, which eliminates all the crap.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: Live 7.0.1
"Advanced interface, but worth the effort"
Pros: You can use it as a Multitrack recorder, Sequencer, Sound generator, Mixer, Remixer(makes it easy), and Looper, besides the obvious "live" capabilities. Amazing sounds/effects/soft syths. Gobs of parameters, a thousand ways to mutilate/variate your music. A solid beast for the intermediate DJ/Remix artist. Once you get past the hard-to-understand user interface(who knows, maybe it's because it's a German product), you'll be amazed at how good you sound.
Cons: The user interface is NOT intuitive.
Simple recording of an instrument sound is complicated(because there are so many ways to do this).
Simple exporting of loops is not a simple task either. Some WAV files won't import unless they have been "Analyzed" first. MP3 files can be imported, but not created/rendered from Ableton. In other words, you can't hit a button and turn an Ableton Live Set/Song/Clip into an MP3. WAV and AIFF only. This is a feature on most audio software programs under $99(ACID Home Studio comes to mind). Maybe it's possible to do this, but good luck figuring it out. Overall, the software is detailed and useful for intermediate to advanced level audiophiles, but fails the "experienced amateur" and anyone below that ability level because there are just too many ways to do everything. For $499, you're probably better off getting Reason or Soundforge, unless you work in a professional studio. But you probably aren't looking at Ableton Live if you're a professional, because there are better "professional" grade products(albeit more expensive) out there.
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1 stars
Version: Live 7.0.1
"Terrible, whats the point if you can't save?"
Pros: You can record your own music and it has a great looking layout.
Cons: You can't save anything and the gadgets arn't great, i have seen alot of better programs!
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