![]() The thing is that the OT does things that no other machine around does… I bought it pretty much for backing tracks, and use the arrangement like “ableton” kind of set… without ableton and a reliable device… And this achieved perfectly fine… The OT has some obvious limitations that oblige you to be creative, at the same time that a bit nerdy… at the begining I couldnt accept the 1 note poliphony per channel… Depending on what style of music you produce, you might be able to compose more often OTB… But for certain styles it´s clearly a pain… I think it really depends on each approach. If you don’t like it then there’s no real reason to keep it (and with supplies low I’m sure there’s a lot of people desperate to buy and love 2nd hand ones) but it’s worth thinking about what you’re losing.Īs a good example of Live/OT together it’s worth turning to the gear loving Matthew Dear ( and if I was being snarky I might say that I’ve had my guitar for 20 years and it STILL has the ‘breaking strings’ bug, and the ‘reverse playing’ function was never delivered… hurumph) ![]() There have been big jumps in OT functionality with the software updates so far, and yes there’s been little break while all the AK/AR stuff has been happening, but personally I haven’t used up every musical possibility the OT offers me in its current form, so I’m not actually ‘waiting’ for an update (And I use it in combination with Live when I’m in the studio) So yes pick-up machines suck, and there’s a few bugs here and there in the OT, and no it doesn’t do ‘everything’.īut it’s a very young machine when you think about it,Īnd for me it totally changed my approach to writing/playing live. but let’s remember it took until around 3 years until it got midi sequencing functionality!! and in terms of paying for updates every other year Live, Live 9 came 4 years later. I feel that sometimes people forget the history of Ableton Live, it appeared in 2001 and was super exciting at the time, really different way of working etc. Ok, i never usually have the urge to be drawn into these threads around ‘my OT sucks, I should sell it and go to ableton/mpc/push etc etc’, but this time i’ve just got to say … The MIDI side very much feels like an afterthought. It’s usually the case that I think of something neat to do with it only to find out that it won’t work like that. I wouldn’t be using soft synths.at all.Ĭ) Hah! Definitely not complete or I wouldn’t be thinking about ditching it!! It also does not need to be front and center at all times, you can simply use it for backing tracks or as a 4 input / 8 track digital FX boxĪ) Is there some really bad timing issues in Ableton? I can’t recall any but I imagine that if I had enough crap going on, there could be. The OT provides a set of limited but powerful tools you can master, and there is a forum full of people with the EXACT same limitations that you can learn from and refer to. A) write music and be able to perform with out depending on plug-ins and other timing/latency issuesī) want to spend your money on synths and other midi friendly gear rather than an expensive interface or outboard FX/processing,Ĭ) want a complete hardware solution that can boot up faster than any pc/mac
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