Re: well ableton live is pretty cool, isn't it!

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

Glad you're on a rewarding track now with your big rig change project!

Yep, I agree. Live is cool due to the MIDI clips option to control
loopers. I used mainly Ableton before Mainstage came around, but since
then I use Mainstage 1 because it has better MIDI clock sync
(following my adventurous tempo changes in the Mobius looper) and also
because I am able to pick a sparse palette of plugins that give me
even lower CPU use than Ableton and Bidule. As for Mainstage 2 I've
actually never migrated there yet, not stable with the multi plugin
parmeter morphing I like to do.

With every combination of host application and palette of plugins
there are pros and cons and for the plugins I like to use Mainstage 1
has proven the best sounding host solution. Actually, many of the
Mobius scripts I still use today started as Ableton Live MIDI clips to
control an Electrixpro Repeater ten years ago ;-))  Not much new here
on the tech side I guess, but to me that means good soil for musical
progression.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com
www.looproom.com internet music hub



On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Simeon Harris
<simeonharris40@googlemail.com> wrote:
> hello, my name is simeon and i'm a mobius user....
> tried hosting in mainstage 2...ugh...terrible cpu usage...crippled my 
>whole
> machine
> tried bidule...wonderful bit of software, but had some issues with cpu 
>and
> memory and boy, it's just so ugly
> now i'm using ableton - stable, pretty to look at and good with cpu!
> downside - rubbish with incoming clock. had to ditch nearly all the third
> party plugins i was using and make new effects using ableton's own ones.
> upside - clips! wow! terrific - i can send midi controller data to 
>filters
> and loop it in sync, or send midi commands to mobius (shuffle track two
> every 4 bars while overdubbing on track three, anybody?!). oh and fire 
>off a
> drum loop or two... :)
> hoorah!
> now to finish recording my album and stop messing about with all this
> software...!
> s